TechSpot reviews ratings valid?

[PetoneOldBoy]

This may have been discussed before.....
I’ve noticed when looking at camera reviews, the Techspot total Rating score on Occassion seems to inaccurately collate/add up ratings from different review sites, before deriving an average/end score.
Reviews/ratings that score out of 5 seem to be the problem occasionally. A site that scores a camera 4.5 out of 5, for example, attracts a “red” coloured “poor” rating- indicative of 45%- when in fact the rating should be “green” coloured, as the rating equates to 90%! Equally, a rating of 5/5 should be treated as 100%, whereas it seems this is being treated sometimes as only 5/10, or 50%.
Can Techspot’s rating collation and score deriving program be corrected to address this, and provide accurate Ratings? Cheers

 

[Julio Franco]

Hey there, thanks for your feedback.
First I wanted to introduce you to TechSpot and two distinct sections that we have where products receive review scores.

TechSpot Reviews - this is where you will find our own reviews, roundups, tests and benchmarks. Ratings are our own.

TechSpot Product Finder - this is a huge database of tech products where scores are an average of all the reviews from around the web (think Metacritic for technology). We also provide a summary, pros & cons, pricing info and curate competing products so it serves you as a comparison shopping guide.

With thousands of reviews being tracked and dozens added every day, sometimes we have input mistakes (like the one you found in the Camera section) but we try to keep those at a minimum (we normalize all scores to 100).

After reading your comment, we've made a pass at the Camera section and corrected a couple of scoring mistakes. If you still find something specific please let us know.

 

[PetoneOldBoy]

Hey there, thanks for your feedback.
First I wanted to introduce you to TechSpot and two distinct sections that we have where products receive review scores.

TechSpot Reviews - this is where you will find our own reviews, roundups, tests and benchmarks. Ratings are our own.

TechSpot Product Finder - this is a huge database of tech products where scores are an average of all the reviews from around the web (think Metacritic for technology). We also provide a summary, pros & cons, pricing info and curate competing products so it serves you as a comparison shopping guide.

With thousands of reviews being tracked and dozens added every day, sometimes we have input mistakes (like the one you found in the Camera section) but we try to keep those at a minimum (we normalize all scores to 100).

After reading your comment, we've made a pass at the Camera section and corrected a couple of scoring mistakes. If you still find something specific please let us know.

Nice job. Very on to it. Good stuff!

 

[PetoneOldBoy]

Thanks for the reply, and TechSpot’s response. Good effort. Nice one

 

[PetoneOldBoy]

Hi again.
Unfortunately Techspot’s Metascore Ratings are still inaccurately recording and collating some website scores, which appear as Negative Reviews/Ratings, and bring down the overall score of the product.
Examples are:
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/revi...s-only-let-down-by-its-price-tag-4358653.html. This site gives a rating of 3.8/5. (Which is 76%), but Techspot recognises this as just 38 (I.e. 38%) https://www.techspot.com/products/cameras/fujifilm-x-e3.172909/. Which skews the result, down.
Another example:
https://www.techspot.com/products/cameras/panasonic-lumix-gx9.180097/. Recorded as 50
https://www.fotohits.de/tests-technik/kameratests/2018/panasonic-gx9/. (5 is the MONTH of review, not the score- the score is “SEHR GUT”, or, Very Good.
FotoHits uses words like this, or
“EXZELLENT”. as below:
https://www.fotohits.de/tests-technik/kameratests/2018/fujifilm-x-h1/. The Rating is EXCELLENT. The Month of review happens to be May, or month “5”. The resulting rating is 50.
https://www.techspot.com/products/cameras/fujifilm-x-h1.180148/
Here’s another.....
https://www.techspot.com/products/cameras/sony-alpha-a7r-3.175005/
Gets a 46 Ratings from maxit, but go to the site, and shows the camera with a GOLD AWARD!
http://www.maxit.my/2018/05/review-sony-alpha-7r-mark-iii/ -so much more likely the score is 4.6/5. (92%)!

So it would seem that viewers need to look further at any Negative/Lower scoring reviews that rate 50 or less, as you MAY have to DOUBLE that score, as the review could in fact be a Good, or Great one.

 

[PetoneOldBoy]

P.S.
Another example of a Rating which appears to be derived from the MONTH of the year, and not the actual rating (in this case 60% (from 6/2018 - JUNE/2018), where the rating is EXCELLENT.
Fotonews (FotoHits magazine)
https://www.techspot.com/products/cameras/sony-alpha-a7-3.181425/

https://www.fotohits.de/tests-technik/kameratests/2018/sony-a7-m3/

 

[Julio Franco]

We're looking into this. Thanks for bringing it up. It may be possible there is an issue with reviews coming in the cameras section or from a handful of camera review sites specifically.

 

[DragonOne23]

The entire system is a little strange, but as Julio noted here, it's all automated. https://www.techspot.com/community/...dlc-reviews-to-lower-aggregate-scores.260302/

I think if they had a way of automatically turning off reviews being added to the products after a month there out, it would fix the problem