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Originally Posted by Southern Yankee
This is a very interesting thread. I really don’t want to get involved so this is my only opinion on the matter….. My father has been an avid reader of Consumer Reports for his entire life. He’s 56 now. Everything in his house was purchased on the advice of Consumer Reports. So you can imagine my dismay when CR reviewed BEER.
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I agree with you completely on this one. It is impossible to objectively rate something like beer, as this is really a matter of personal taste. Same goes for wine, although some of the ratings are useful in that your alternative is to buy something crummy and to be unable to put it back cheaply. This is similar to rating the look of cars. Plenty of people I've talked to think the Ridgeline is really ugly. Others think it is trend-setting and really neat. How do you rate that? I think CR should stick to items that can truly be objectively rated and, in the case of items that need repair, can be rated for reliability. I personally think they did a pretty good job with the Ridgeline.