When I was doing the survey I found the 'Highest Education Credential Earning' question difficult because the credentials listed don't match those in my home country, Australia. For example, we have a system of "technical certificates" that fall in between High School and Bachelor's degrees. (I think I chose '2 year degree' as the closest approximation, even though mine only took 1 year to complete.) And I know that doing a Bachelors in some areas is the functional equivalent of doing a Masters in others.
Would a question asking for how many years of post-schooling study one has completed be more or less useful? The wording could be tricky, since then there is ambiguity about whether to list time spent if one is part way through a qualification. If the majority of respondents are from places that match the listed options then mucking about with the question may not be of much value either.
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It's not "the community". It's The Artist Formerly Known As Eugine_Nier and his army of sockpuppets.
(Therefore, by the way, I don't feel punished by the downvotes. One consequence of Eugine's behaviour is that I now assume almost all downvotes I get are Eugine being Eugine and convey zero information about the actual quality of what I've written. He's therefore made it almost impossible for anyone actually to change my behaviour or hurt my feelings by downvoting me. But at this point I'm not sure he has any actual coherent goals in his downvoting. It's more like a habit, or a scream of rage.)
I guess you can assume that EN auto-downvotes by X and just adjust the origin down by that amount... eg your comment is at -8 - which (assuming EN downvotes by -10) means it's actually really at +2