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You should look at 5-star ranking systems. For example look at these (hilarious) reviews for the BIC Cristal For Her Ball Pen.Source - [1]This is probably one reason why YouTube switched their five-star system to a likes/dislikes system. The most popular star rating on YouTube was 5. People also gave 1 star ratings, but very few people gave 2-4 star ratings. (see graph) [2]Source - [2]Some possible explanations for this are:Vote Stuffing - Some people are more interested in changing the average rating for an item rather than give their true opinion on it. (IMDb tries to address this problem)Selection Bias - As Amanda mentioned in the comments, people who would vote 2-4 don't have a strong enough desire to represent themselves in the dataset.Controversiality - Some things are just naturally controversial.Here's a one-page paper on the topic The paper describes how U-shaped distributions can come into play.Variables having U-shaped distributions, such as the Barthel index, are sometimes referred to in the statistical/medical literature as bounded scores; that is, scores bounded below and above, in which the bounds can and will be attained in a nontrivial proportion of the population. [2]The paper mentions the Barthel Index, a measure of the ability of a patient to perform daily activities. This is a really nice example. The paper's definition of bounded score seems to capture very well how U-shaped distributions can arise: when the distribution is bounded and the extremes are often realized.Source - [3][1] - Amazon.com: BIC Cristal For Her Ball Pen, 1.0mm, Black, 16ct (MSLP16-Blk): Office Products[2] - Five Stars Dominate Ratings[3] - Encyclopedia of Biostatistics

ERBI stands for early rehabilitation Barthel Index.It Is a scale used to assess neurological deficits, it includes highly relevant items like Tracheostomy, mechanical ventilation, or monitoring on a dichotomies scale Which helps in neurological early rehabilitation. It has limitations because it won’t allow evaluation of cognitive abilities and wakefulness.

Not a doctor; responding to A2A.What I would expect for any Spinal Cord Injury diagnosis is the location of the damage and how bad it is: severed? compressed? what.My understanding is that with SCI, as SOME patients will recover a lot more ability than expected and others will never make any significant progress, that what seems anomalous in movement/sensation is kind of typical.A number of tests I’m aware of people using to chart if therapy is helping exist. I don’t have more than an awareness of them, but I understand things such as the QIF, Quadriplegia Index of Function, was designed partly because the Barthel Index was considered to not be sensitive enough to chart functional gains during rehab. My suspicion is that the damage is high enough that tetraplegic/quadriplegic incomplete is the right diagnosis, but it seems to me the imaging would need to be considered, not just “sense touch on foot” which is what makes me think possibly it is paraplegia instead. Given the dermatomes without a complete severing MIGHT possibly be able to function a bitDermatomes Chart and Locations on the Skinit seems possible the actual highest damage point could qualify for tetraplegia because I understand ability to move arms but not control hands CAN happen with incomplete tetraplegia.I suspect SCI may not be so easily “definable” as one would assume because of those issues and fact some patients DO heal to a degree.I suspect docs would look at the imaging as well as the clinical to make the diagnosis. I’d just be encouraged a patient with that profile MIGHT be able to make some significant gains as it sounds like it’s not a complete severing.