Ratings on Treadmills - How to decipher treadmill ratings
At the end of many reviews, ratings on treadmills are given based on what the reviewer, consumer or magazine thought of the treadmill. This means that many of the product rating treadmills are based on a single star rating which is supposed to reflect a decision on the part of the consumer. However, the whole debate about ratings on treadmills and the rating system revolves around fitness for use in a given situation.
This means that using a category system for evaluating ratings on treadmills that fits the way that you would rate your fitness product acquisition will enable you to evaluate products in a way that makes sense to your own fitness for use criteria.
For example, re-evaluating ratings on treadmills using your own system of weights will yield a final treadmill product star rating which reflects your own decision making process, and give more importance to aspects that might interest you more and thus get a better rating.
The way to adjust ratings on treadmills to match your own system of ratings is to look for clues as to how the reviewer uses rate values against specifically rated features when arriving at the final rating used to evaluate the products.
In some of the ratings on treadmills web sites, they will actually tell you how the treadmill was rated, and what features received what weights. In fact, the best sites will give ratings on treadmills per feature that they decide to rate. Each product feature receives a score and the final rating used to evaluate the products under test is just an average of those scores.
So, you need to decide which of the ratings on treadmills reflect features that are important, and proportionally change the treadmill rating per feature so that the ones that are less important to you receive a lower score. The final product list will be reordered based on the way that you have rated the ratings.
This way of altering the ratings on treadmills should still mean that the best rated equipment from manufactures such as Nordic Track will still have a good chance of winning with you, but only if the price difference is worth the extra features or quality, in your rating system.
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