How do Card Grading Companies Train Graders?

Stone193

Just having some fun, I will give the first one and everyone else can give their ideas - if scumbi is lurking I am expecting something good. Here's mine:
They put a person in a room with 10 cards and 10 marbles. Everytime they correctly grade a card, they spit out one marble. When the person has lost ALL their marbles, they are a Certified Grader!
So, what's your take on the rigors of card grading, have a contest, how about a reality show like the intern, Ranger school for Graders - 7 continuous days of grading without sleep!
Mike

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WinPitcher

They give the applicant 10 cards and any time the grader to be is wrong he gets it with a cattle prod. Once the applicant passes the cattle prod they then have him sit in a dentist chair, again with 10 cards and if the guy/gal is wrong they hit a nerve and say "is it a 10" (as opposed to "is it safe"). Then finally if you get passed the prod and the dentist you then are allowed to grade cards.

but....by then your trying your best to get the hell out!

CON40

Don't know how they do it, but here is a rarely seen photo of the head grader responsible for training all PSA card, ticket, and ball graders.

Scumbi

I wish I had some personal insight into this topic, but I really don't know. However, a friend slipped me Mike Baker's autobiography due out July 1st. It's called "The Emperor's New Grades".

Page 57 -

"...after the head trauma, I was forced to face the fact I'd never be an astronaut. Thus, I enrolled in Barbizon School of Modeling. If you thing it's tough to be an astronaut, you won't believe the dedication it takes to be a model. The first week alone we had to write a paper about what we did the previous summer.

Page 78 -

"...after four years of failing runway walking, I knew I wasn't destined to grace the fashion shows in Milan. I started drinking heavily. Often times I had seventeen or eighteen Yoo-Hoos a day. The insane amount of calcium caused two large cataracts to form over both eyes..."

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"...we tossed out the 20 point card grading system we devised when I remembered I'd lost a toe as a young boy dancing in the briar patch...

Page 189 -

"...the training was impossible to standardize. We were about to give up when something odd happened. The major dealers submitting to us pretty much determined our grading system. If they called and complained that a card was undergraded by a grade, it meant we had got it right. If the dealer called to thank us, we were a grade to high. If the dealer went to Beckett, without telling us, we realized we were probably a grade too low. Thus, our training came from watching the maniacal reactions of maniacal card dealers..."

Page 299 -

"...once our registry board is up in 2009, watch out. We'll be able to stop tearing up Britney Spears' baby shoes for limited issues and compete with the company we made great."

coachh

If you work for Pro, they have you learn to flip a coin on a carpet.
Heads - Grade is a 10
Tails - Grade is a 9
On its edge - Grade is an 8