echelon6
Shiny_Rock
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- Jul 5, 2007
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Hi all
A thought occurred to me:
Since merchants only send their stones to AGS if they believe their stone is likely to receive an AGS 0 or 1, then therefore AGS would only be grading stones and giving them 0s 1s or 2s at worst. Therefore AGS wouldn''t be giving much 8s 9s 10s very often, if at all. My question is, if every stone that comes out of AGS has a high AGS score, isn''t it a bit circular to say that the stones coming from AGS are great? i.e. if we look at the distribution of AGS scores, (I haven''t, just guessing here) and see that the worst score they give is a 3, (within reasonable standard deviations) then maybe we can construe that a 3 is actually very bad?
I guess what I''m asking here is what is the point of having a grade system that goes down to 10 if supposedly only the best get sent there (iirc only 2% of stones on the market are AGS certed) and the worst reasonable score one would expect is a 3? I guess the danger here is that over time, the people at AGS might be so used to giving 0s - 3s that even sent a very bad stone, it would get a 4. Could that happen?
A thought occurred to me:
Since merchants only send their stones to AGS if they believe their stone is likely to receive an AGS 0 or 1, then therefore AGS would only be grading stones and giving them 0s 1s or 2s at worst. Therefore AGS wouldn''t be giving much 8s 9s 10s very often, if at all. My question is, if every stone that comes out of AGS has a high AGS score, isn''t it a bit circular to say that the stones coming from AGS are great? i.e. if we look at the distribution of AGS scores, (I haven''t, just guessing here) and see that the worst score they give is a 3, (within reasonable standard deviations) then maybe we can construe that a 3 is actually very bad?
I guess what I''m asking here is what is the point of having a grade system that goes down to 10 if supposedly only the best get sent there (iirc only 2% of stones on the market are AGS certed) and the worst reasonable score one would expect is a 3? I guess the danger here is that over time, the people at AGS might be so used to giving 0s - 3s that even sent a very bad stone, it would get a 4. Could that happen?