Re:Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
by bb010g on Monday June 20, 2022 @03:15PM
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Sounds like those basic components should be weighted more heavily, then?
Re:Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
by bryanlarsen on Monday June 20, 2022 @03:21PM
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Not really. If any single category is "good enough" then the weights are reasonably correct. It's just when a single category is a deal breaker that the simple metric of adding them up doesn't work.
It's really bad for HDR monitors, where an edge lit "fake HDR" monitor can get a 7, while failing the basics that are necessary to give a proper HDR experience. Something like TFTCentral or HardwareUnboxed's HDR checklists, and just straight up failing monitors that don't meet all the requirements would be much better than their current (imo misleading) system that can give good SDR monitors high HDR scores, when they're terrible at HDR.