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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 2759811, member: 15309&quot;]And how do they do that Doug?&nbsp; Write a memo to all the graders &quot;guys, submission is down, add a point to all your grades.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>More likely is that what people perceive as loosening of standards is a combination of grading subjectivity and and increased tolerance of market grading principles.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin in this thread is a perfect example.&nbsp; You and most of the other people in this thread view the surface marks as grade limiting.&nbsp; I can very easily imagine the TPGs changing there standards to ignore grade limiters in the presence of superlatives in the other elements of grading.</p><p><br /></p><p>And conventional wisdom is that grading actually tightened with the inception of the CAC in 2008.&nbsp; Furthermore, the adoption of the &quot;+&quot; grade was specifically designed to combat gradeflation.&nbsp; And I saw a GTG just today that showed that it is indeed working.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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