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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;geekpryde, post: 4128379, member: 36248&quot;]I believe you will admit that you see plenty of over-graded TPG coins, maybe even the rare under-graded coin.&nbsp;&nbsp; I also see now that you are trying to select coins that you feel are properly graded by the TPG for your GTG polls, something I didn&#039;t realise until you mentioned it above.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; This creates a situation where people now know you are judging them on how similar they grade to you and PCGS, and people are thus more likely to understand your polls to be &quot;Select the grade the TPG assigned the coin&quot;, and NOT &quot;Select the grade you think the coin should be&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>People wanting to be &quot;right&quot; will outnumber the people who interpret your polls as asking how THEY would grade the coin.&nbsp; It reinforces itself, as people say &quot;ooh, I was right again&quot; and their own standards float closer and closer to PCGS.&nbsp; Then the few people still grading it by their own standards look more and more like old fashioned pessimists, or contrarians, crazy old kooks, or just plain bad graders.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So while you might think because you and PCGS agree on your example coins, those statements are not equivalent.&nbsp; The results of your polls would be quite a bit different (I think) if you specifically stated which one you are looking for to begin with.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll be honest, I have answered you polls both ways.&nbsp;&nbsp; How I would grade, and how TPG graded.&nbsp; For me it wasn&#039;t about being &quot;right&quot;, it was more fun to mix-and-match.&nbsp;&nbsp; I bet some other members did that too.&nbsp;&nbsp; Taking them as stand-alone polls, and not a portfolio of grades to show how good or bad of a grader a person is.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would <b>love</b> to see coins that you radically disagree with PCGS on.&nbsp;&nbsp; That would be a lot of fun.&nbsp;&nbsp; Don&#039;t hint at it, just mix them in.&nbsp; &nbsp; I bet you see examples all the time, that at least would keep members here on their toes, and not always trying to be &quot;right&quot;.&nbsp; It would also help members who are new to grading for themselves see that PCGS is not infallible, and they are not 100% consistent, and that even you, the GTG Poll God, don&#039;t always agree with them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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