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Summary

  • The Good Choice Guide community rates products across five different categories (one star per category)
  • This allows you to know whether it is right for you in terms of price, quality, feeling, function and its impact on the world.

Three easy steps of rating things on the Good Choice Guide

Step 1: Choose which of the five-star topics applies to you

You can choose whether or not a product is good for:

  • Price – did it deliver the right amount of value for the money you paid?
  • Quality – was the product made well and with good materials?
  • Feeling – is it stylish? Does it make you happy?
  • Function – does it do what you wanted it to do? Was it a smart choice?
  • The world – does this product has a positive impact on people, the environment and its industry?

If you’re not sure whether a product earns a particular star, or not, no stress! Go with your first instinct, or just leave it unstarred.

Step 2: Add some stickers for fun

The stickers are a great (but optional) way for you to further express your views about a product.

Think of it like adding the relevant emojis on a message to a friend.

Step 3: Write a thought (or two) down

Adding a written contribution will really help people understand what’s behind your review.

Write any further comments or insights you want, which you think might be helpful for people considering purchasing the product.

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Why do we rate products like this?

The ‘old way’ of rating products out of five stars

You’re probably used to rating products on a scale from one to five, where five is supposed to represent ‘very good’ and one means ‘trash’. But, do these five stars really build an accurate picture of how good the product will be for you?

Real-world data of rating systems reveal that people actually rate most products five stars nearly all of the time. Think about it for yourself, you’re a nice person, so how many times have you rated something five stars simply because it’s a nice thing to do – and, quite frankly, the simplest? Did you really believe the things you rate five stars would be good for everyone, in every way?

On the flip-side, a one-star review doesn’t mean the product will be terrible for everyone, does it? And what justifies ‘losing’ stars to get down to four, or three, or two star-ratings?

Things that justify changing the score to you, may not mean much for someone else… which makes sense because we’re all unique and have a different way of seeing the world.

Of course, if you want more information on what the reviews mean, you can start reading the written comments. But not too many people have time to read ALL the comments on a product, so having a numerical rating system summarising the reviews is very, very helpful for us.

All we need to do is get those ratings better aligned with each other, so we all have a shared understanding of what they mean. And here is the answer…

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The new way – the Good Choice Guide rating system

When you rate a product on the Good Choice Guide, you’re rating the different aspects of what makes a product good, so it’s easy to see the various ways people like or dislike products.

Do you tend to care more about price than the way a product makes you ‘feel’? Do you exclusively focus on buying things that have a positive impact on the world? No matter who you are, our purpose is to help you find products that are good for you and your individual priorities.

Our rating system supports that by giving far richer – and more fun – data.

Sounds good? Great! Let’s get started…

The best way to understand the benefits of our way of doing reviews is to rate a product yourself.

Thanks for doing that! We’re a new website, so doing new reviews really helps us out by giving our community more content to read.

Still have questions? We’d love to hear them. Send an email to editor@goodchoice.guide.

 

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