[gwbas1c]

Honestly, I've found that testers are poor judges of priority. They get emotionally involved in their bug and don't really make a good judgement of the priority to the business.

That's why the split between priority and severity exists: The tester is telling you the subjective view of the bug as if a user encountered it; and the triage process is all about judging the priority of fixing the bug in this particular release cycle.

[2rsf]

Testers are not supposed to judge priority, that's a business decision (that could be based on technical know-how) and as such should be decided by business people aka PMs