Editorial policy

Sourcing

• Every factual claim — a specification, a price, a rating, a reviewer's opinion — carries a citation to a source we retrieved and read.
• Specifications come from the manufacturer first, then from outlets that measure them independently. Where sources disagree, we say so rather than pick a winner quietly.
• Ratings are recorded exactly as published. We never convert between scales or infer a score from prose.
• Prices are dated, because they change.

Attribution

• One citation supports one publisher's claim. Words like "reviewers" or "most" require that many citations, each of which actually makes the claim.
• We don't merge two outlets' separate statements into a comparison or a cause-and-effect claim neither of them made.
• A disagreement is only reported where the sources' own words disagree.
• Reviewers' published pros and cons are recorded word for word, with any reservation left intact.

Comparisons

• A comparative claim needs a source that compares the two products. Most outlets review only one of them, and one outlet's verdict on each is not a comparison.
• Specifications from two manufacturer spec sheets may sit side by side, each with its own citation, with any independent measurement that disagrees noted next to it.
• Where the sources don't settle a dimension, the page says so instead of naming a winner.
• The two consensus scores come from different sets of reviews, so they summarise each product's own reception and are never presented as a head-to-head result.

Quoting

Quotes are short, marked as quotes and attributed. Everything else is our own synthesis. We do not reproduce anyone's review at length; the point of a citation is to send you to the original.

Independence

We buy nothing, receive no review samples and accept no payment for coverage or placement. The site is funded by advertising. If we ever add affiliate links, they will be disclosed on every page that carries them, and they will never influence which products are recommended or how a score is calculated.

AI and authorship

Pages are researched and drafted by AI systems, checked against their sources by a separate pass, and approved by a person before publication. Articles are credited to DataDesign rather than to an invented author, because no individual wrote them. We never claim hands-on experience we don't have.

Corrections

Mistakes get fixed quickly and listed publicly on the corrections page, with the date and what changed. If you spot an error, tell us and we'll check it against the source.