01-11-2013, 05:07 PM
Robert M wrote:
Silvarios,
So true! I think Consumer Reports even says that differences of just a few points are pretty much meaningless. A phone that has an overall rating of 85 isn't going to be noticeably worse than a phone rated at 90. Much greater differences, i.e. 90 vs 60, then you're talking what is likely a meaningful difference.
Robert
If that is true (which I certainly agree with) then CR should not rank them or show meaningless scores. They should instead aggregate them into meaningful categories. There are a lot of folks out there who will blindly buy the phone with the highest "score", unaware that the weighting that CR gives each feature is completely made up and often meaningless. This is why CR is such a crappy arbiter of quality for so many products.