[Poll for Mark Knowles] Explanation for Voynich text?

[Mark Knowles]

I think the answer lies in Nabalator's point about Option 2 being too wide.  The problem for your polls is that people read the options differently.

I am perfectly happy to rerun the poll with a different set of options, providing there are not too many, that people feel better represent their perspectives. I anticipated that it was quite likely that quite a few people would not agree with the options I have provided; that seems inevitable in this kind of situation.

I don't think, though I could be wrong, that Gerard Cheshire, Ahmet Ardic, Rainer Hannig or Janick/Tucker would describe their theories as being a simple substitution cipher, in fact I think they would reject the term "cipher/cypher" and "simple" could be seen as a pejorative. I sense that is how others who disagree with that interpretation would describe them. Ideally I want a set of categories which represent the broad range of interpretations and for which each respondent feels happy that their opinion is correctly covered. I don't, however, want a poll where there is an option that covers the opinion of each single person, so we end up with 20+ different options.