Good and Bad review: How to differentiate between them?

[Quadophile]

1) What do you look for in a review of any product?

2) How do you establish the credibility of the reviewer?

 

[HardcoreRobot]

2) look at their reviews of other stuff that you have evaluated yourself, see if you agree

 

[Ilmater]

I read fifteen of them, and if 10 say the same thing, I go with that.

 

[dullard]

I look for:

1) Multiple comparisons of multiple products with the same requirements for all products.

2) A review that doesn't include personal opinion. For example, Consumer Reports does NOT include the looks/feel of a vehicle when rating them, but most other car reviews DO include the looks/feel. Since looks/feel is subjective, I might disagree with the reviewer. I want to take the car's performance as the baseline and then ADD my own look/feel opinion to the review. I cannot realistically subtract the reviewer's opinion from the rating if it was included.

3) A review that isn't clearly biased. For example, suppose 10 products work quite well at the task that is needed. But product #6 has one minor feature that few people want/need. If the review makes that feature a requirement and thus #6 is vaulted far above the rest, then the review is flawed.

What I avoid:

1) One person's opinion that the product is good/bad or worked/failed. One person out of millions of users is statistically meaningless. Of course, advertizing and most people's buying is highly influenced by this one person type of review. That is really sad.

 

[Quadophile]

Originally posted by: dullard
I look for:....................

Very thoughtful post! I hope other also respond in similar fashion