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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2014431, member: 112&quot;]I guess there&#039;s a point that some people just don&#039;t understand. And that point is why computer grading failed the several times it has been tried before. Computer grading failed because the only thing a computer can do is to grade coins on a purely technical basis. And virtually every expert there is in the hobby will tell you that that cannot be done because it simply isn&#039;t good enough, it leaves too much out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Grading coins on a purely technical basis is what we had 50 years ago. The first ANA grading standards were based on technical grading. And it only took 10 years for even the ANA to learn that it just didn&#039;t work. That it just wasn&#039;t good enough because it left too much out. There is more to grading coins than just counting the number, size, and location, of marks. Abstract and esoteric ideas and concepts come into play. An apt comparison would be art. You can have two different paintings, one painted by a machine, the other by an artist. The machine painting has not a brush stroke or line out of place. But that doesn&#039;t mean the art is any good, it just looks dull, blah. But the one painted by an artist evokes emotion in us and makes us stand and stare at it in awe. And you can&#039;t teach a machine to do that, even if that machine is controlled by the most advanced computer in the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>When people say that they are in favor of computer grading, what they really want, what they are really in favor of is technical grading. But we had technical grading, tried it for years, and the consensus was it just doesn&#039;t work, because it cannot work.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now if you are young and didn&#039;t live through that, then you are probably not going to understand it because you have never experienced it for yourself. You were not there to see it. Those of us who are older were. We went through it step by step, we experienced each and every failure of the technical grading system, lived it. And so we know it doesn&#039;t work. We don&#039;t have to wonder about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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