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Posted By: Charlie Barokas

The Doctor analogy is the correct one. We pay Doctors to render an opinion on our health or lack thereof. Many mistakes are made. Medicine may not be an exact science but nor is grading. There are exceptions to both but we are not going to render opinons based on the aberrations?

I remember reading about a person who went in for surgery and left with a scalple left in his body cavity.

Many mistakes are made in both professions because their anacdotes are made by human beings who are not inflable.

Intent is another issue, some would argue that Doctors and drug companies are incentivsed to keep us sick in order to make money? Much like card grading, grading companies have an incentive to make some mistakes to foster reviews and re-grading.

Charlie