Point Five's 3rd Annual Grading Contest: ROUND 1 RESULTS 6 6

[Point Five]

And with the old-school grading, comes the return of the old-school charts! (God bless Shin/sckao and his Excel sheets, kindly provided to me back in 2020. This would be completely impossible to do otherwise.)

Round 1 Results:

[Point Five]

Round 1 Grade Distributions:

Book 1: Detective Comics #359: CGC 5.0
Book 2: The Hawk #10: CGC 5.5
Book 3: Jungle Comics #36: CGC 7.5

Edited August 28, 2022 by Point Five

[piper]

[Point Five]

Whew, that Hawk book was bruising. Only 5 (out of 34!) got it right.  

 

[zzutak]

On 8/27/2022 at 7:40 PM, Point Five said:

Whew, that Hawk book was bruising. Only 5 (out of 34!) got it right.

With 11 of 34 contestants giving the Hawk #10 a 4.5 VG+, it could legitimately be argued that CGC got it wrong!   

[piper]

I talked myself out of 7.5 for book 3.

[grendelbo]

@Funnybooks

"rusty trombone”

[Point Five]

On 8/27/2022 at 10:47 PM, zzutak said:

With 11 of 34 contestants giving the Hawk #10 a 4.5 VG+, it could legitimately be argued that CGC got it wrong!   

I'll rush it right back to them and ask them to make the fix.  

 

[Point Five]

On 8/27/2022 at 10:49 PM, piper said:

I talked myself out of 7.5 for book 3.

Right? I think this is as gentle a center crease as could possibly exist... but I can see how it feels a bit jarring to call *any* book with a center crease a 7.5.

 

[zzutak]

Here are the key measures of central tendency for Round 1 (Mean = the average grade; Median = the middle grade in a numerically rank-ordered list; Mode = the most common grade):

Book	CGC	Grade Distribution Statistics
#	Grade	Mean	Median	Mode
1	5.0	5.1	5.0	4.5
2	5.5	4.9	4.5	4.5
3	7.5	7.1	7.5	7.5

Here are a few notable observations based on the data reported above:

• Book #1 (Detective Comics #359):  Only 8 bullseyes (24%), but the mean contestant grade was essentially identical to that of CGC (5.1 vs 5.0).
• Book #2 (Hawk #100):  The fewest bullseyes (15%).  Collectively, the players were slightly more than one grade increment more critical than CGC (4.9 vs 5.5).
• Book #3 (Jungle Comics #36):  The most bullseyes (35%).  Collectively, the players were almost one grade increment more critical than CGC (7.1 vs 7.5).

So much for the theory that CGC is currently in a "tough" period. 

Many thanks for the opportunity, Jon.   

[Point Five]

On 8/27/2022 at 11:11 PM, zzutak said:

Here are the key measures of central tendency for Round 1 (Mean = the average grade; Median = the middle grade in a numerically rank-ordered list; Mode = the most common grade):

Book	CGC	Grade Distribution Statistics
#	Grade	Mean	Median	Mode
1	5.0	5.1	5.0	4.5
2	5.5	4.9	4.5	4.5
3	7.5	7.1	7.5	7.5

Here are a few notable observations based on the data reported above:

• Book #1 (Detective Comics #359):  Only 8 bullseyes (24%), but the mean contestant grade was essentially identical to that of CGC (5.1 vs 5.0).
• Book #2 (Hawk #100):  The fewest bullseyes (15%).  Collectively, the players were slightly more than one grade increment more critical than CGC (4.9 vs 5.5).
• Book #3 (Jungle Comics #36):  The most bullseyes (35%).  Collectively, the players were almost one grade increment more critical than CGC (7.1 vs 7.5).

So much for the theory that CGC is currently in a "tough" period. 

Many thanks for the opportunity, Jon.   

 

[flashlites]

On 8/27/2022 at 9:30 PM, Point Five said:

Round 1 Grade Distributions:

Book 1: Detective Comics #359: CGC 5.0
Book 2: The Hawk #10: CGC 5.5
Book 3: Jungle Comics #36: CGC 7.5

Pretty fair grouping there.

[Comics4All]

I was going to say 5.0 on the TEC , downgraded to 4.5!

Hawk I thought was a 6.5!

Got 1 bullseye on the Jungle! 

[Get Marwood & I]

On 8/25/2022 at 12:26 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

That's the spirit!

Now remember, Albert - grade the books before you drink 15 pints of Newton and Ridleys. Before. 

...I shed after...you have drunk fishteen pints, Shalbert.....after...

We need to raise our game - even the Aussies are beating us!

[Cman429]

Yeah I’m ignoring those grader notes from now on. I admit I’m naturally a bit of a tough grader but they definitely influenced me to drop .5-1 full grade on two of those books. Like the Jungle looked beautiful but when I read “light center bend and cover tear” I figured a 7.0 would be out of question. 

[Funnybooks]

@grendelbo

[Point Five]

On 8/28/2022 at 3:44 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

 

I may have need of your talents in my Graphics division.   

 

[Mr. Zipper]

I was one grade under on all three books. At least I'm consistent. 

[Funnybooks]

On 8/28/2022 at 9:54 AM, Mr. Zipper said:

I was one grade under on all three books. At least I'm consistent. 

you were definitely not caught with your zipper down