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Why is it biased? What makes a review unbiased to you? Paul spent weeks evaluating the platform which not many people are able to do so they resort to other pe
by dannyr 13y ago
Why is it biased? What makes a review unbiased to you?
Paul spent weeks evaluating the platform which not many people are able to do so they resort to other people's experiences.
This is why Yelp, The Verge, Engadget are popular. Not everybody can try things out because of the risk that it might be a waste of time.
- ebbv 13y agoDo I really have to explain why something titled "X is better" is biased? I thought the HN crowd was a bit smarter than that. I understand why review sites are useful. I'm not advocating they disappear, but I do not think personal blog posts which are highly biased are useful. Especially in 2013 when these platforms have been around for years and years now.
- untog 13y agoI don't understand what your concept of "bias" is. A review on a review site is a person taking the device out for a test run, and seeing how it works. This personal blog post is a guy taking a device out for a test run, and seeing how it works. It would be biased if he worked for Google, or if, at any point, he expressed a disproportionate favour for Android without backing it up. But he didn't. Why is it biased?