Peter
Much appreciated, thank you. I'm strictly not a 'science guy' but yes it's tough! look at this;
I've had an extraordinary 40 different bloggers, and 56 scores! (not to mention public ones).
35 bloggers were authors and ALL POSITIVE and supportive. Over 50% saw the answer!
Let's use logic to analyse the stat's;
Many said they'd given mine 10, indeed some, like Prof Ionescue and another read it very late and kindly did so without even messaging here.
So, 1st approximation is say about 33 original votes, at average just say 7.5. = 247.7
Mine was 5th before the last day. I went to bed with over 4 hrs to go.
On top of the two 10's there were around 21 more votes to make 56. Each would have had to have scored it just 1 (total say 285) to drag the average back to the 5.1. shown !!
I't may be considered none of those '1's were really valid in terms of essay content. It's probably the same for most, though I'd scored many around mine earlier and properly. An interesting idea may be to remove ALL the last minute '1' scores and compare THAT result!. Yes, that's tough, but it's really just all very silly. (Lucky I don't do maths really!)
The really important point confirmed here is the one shown up in my essay,; That science currently seems quite happy to use invalid data for it's analysis. (Write to your senator?!)
That's what's overdue for change, and why I have to be here.
Thanks again and very best wishes with your work.
Peter