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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2940561, member: 71723"]Well, there is SOMETHING to it, if you go back and carefully parse what [USER=76863]@baseball21[/USER] wrote farther upthread, it's there. Sometimes coins benefit from being in "a better grade of company". It's not intentional, but it IS human nature. I observed this even in grading classes. You get into a "groove" when you're looking at top-notch coins and then a slightly less nice coin comes along. All of a sudden, you're into, "Whoa, how MUCH less is this one?" It's hard to recalibrate the brain and eye instantly. If I send in a bunch of meh pieces, my best piece will be seen differently than if that same coin is hanging out with "monsters". To that extent, this is ALWAYS going to be subjective. But it has failsafes. Every coin is seen by at least two graders. If they AGREE, the finalizer just gives it a quick glance to see that the grade is okay. When the first two graders DISAGREE, then the finalizer becomes the "striped shirt", and referees the dispute.[/QUOTE]