PSA Response from President Steve Sloan

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by egbeachley

and I should add that you can’t take the altered population and divide by 30 million Cards graded. That includes resubmits, cards valued under $100, YuGiOh, badly damaged, ungradeable, etc. The true population for comparison is probably closer to 2-5 million.

Eric it doesn't even matter, it's still an astonishingly high number in all likelihood.

[egbeachley]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Eric it doesn't even matter, it's still an astonishingly high number in all likelihood.

It is. But both ends adjusted to the proper levels gets a more accurate guage of the error rates. I see 0.1 and 0.2 percentages when it may really be 2% or more. That makes it significant rather than minuscule.

[tschock]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Eric it doesn't even matter, it's still an astonishingly high number in all likelihood.

It sort of matters, to the extent it makes it seem much worse. The 'potential attempted pool' of submissions would be much smaller, which means that a higher percentage of altered cards are getting through (based on the potential pool). You can take all the $10-$100 (or pick a number) valued cards out of the potential pool, since they are not likely candidates. Or they could contain 'test submissions' for alterations. Unless I'm misinterpreting the original point.