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Can a cigar podcaster or reviewer be unbiased?
- Thread starter Hoshneer
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I think we are all biased. We all have certain people we talk to or share similar palettes that we can pretty much agree with. You can tell a lot by what kind of cigars one smokes. A lot of these pod casters like every single cigar they get...i get it i like anything that's free too 
Or some of them have too many friends in the industry to the point where they recommend it and maybe increase the rating.
From time to time you can hear the enthusiasm in their voices and if you like this stick you'll def like this reviews usually stick out more and those are the ones i pay more attention to.
At the end of the day buy the stick try it and formulate your own review.
Or some of them have too many friends in the industry to the point where they recommend it and maybe increase the rating. From time to time you can hear the enthusiasm in their voices and if you like this stick you'll def like this reviews usually stick out more and those are the ones i pay more attention to.
At the end of the day buy the stick try it and formulate your own review.
ChuckMejia
The General
Tatuaje makes the best cigars in the world.I think we are all biased. We all have certain people we talk to or share similar palettes that we can pretty much agree with. You can tell a lot by what kind of cigars one smokes. A lot of these pod casters like every single cigar they get...i get it i like anything that's free too
From time to time you can hear the enthusiasm in their voices and if you like this stick you'll def like this reviews usually stick out more and those are the ones i pay more attention to.
At the end of the day buy the stick try it and formulate your own review.
He hates the Porsche 911 and loves McLaren though so I forgive him
Tatuaje makes the best cigars in the world.
I love them, but that is debatable. ----And technically that would mean Pepin Garcia makes the best ones
A lot of their popular cigars are HTF, I wonder if they were Regular Production how they would hold up against others in the market.
StogieNinja
Derek | BoM June 2014
I'm 100% comfortable with the statement that DPG makes the best cigars in the world (uh... excluding Cuba), pound for pound. My Father, DPG, Tatuaje, and Crowned Heads. Four of the eight NC brands I smoke on a consistent basis are made at the My Father factory... that's half of my favorite brands, and I smoke them more frequently than the other half. (Quesada, Caldwell, Warped, and Drew Estate being the other four NC brands I smoke regularly... I fully anticipate Dunbarton and Foundation will be joining that regular rotation soon.)I love them, but that is debatable. ----And technically that would mean Pepin Garcia makes the best ones
A lot of their popular cigars are HTF, I wonder if they were Regular Production how they would hold up against others in the market.
That's how you drop a mic...
jonnylieberman
Ask Me About Outrage
The notion of being unbiased is absurd.
People forget/were never taught that the reason a newspaper covers both sides of a story isn't because of Journalism. It's because back in the day, instead of paying one guy to get one side of a story, and a different reporter to get another, services like the AP realized if they bought/sold one story with both sides, they'd make more profit.
You want bias in reviews. They aren't scientific observations. You want to take data points and have them run through a human brain.
in my business, we do huge amounts of testing (tested 12 SUVs this very morning) to get numbers like 0-60, quarter-mile, etc.
Now, if numbers were all that mattered, we test a top fuel dragster and declare that it's 3.2 second quarter-mile run at 347 mph makes it "the best." Of course, because we have biases, we might say something like, "Don Garlits' car is real quick, but it's hell at the mall."
Likewise with cigars, when someone says, "Tastes like chocolate and bubblegum," you then want the reviewer to say, "And that's a disgusting combination."
Now, LYING about a cigar (or a car) is horrible. Always tell the truth.
People forget/were never taught that the reason a newspaper covers both sides of a story isn't because of Journalism. It's because back in the day, instead of paying one guy to get one side of a story, and a different reporter to get another, services like the AP realized if they bought/sold one story with both sides, they'd make more profit.
You want bias in reviews. They aren't scientific observations. You want to take data points and have them run through a human brain.
in my business, we do huge amounts of testing (tested 12 SUVs this very morning) to get numbers like 0-60, quarter-mile, etc.
Now, if numbers were all that mattered, we test a top fuel dragster and declare that it's 3.2 second quarter-mile run at 347 mph makes it "the best." Of course, because we have biases, we might say something like, "Don Garlits' car is real quick, but it's hell at the mall."
Likewise with cigars, when someone says, "Tastes like chocolate and bubblegum," you then want the reviewer to say, "And that's a disgusting combination."
Now, LYING about a cigar (or a car) is horrible. Always tell the truth.
jonnylieberman
Ask Me About Outrage
That hurts, man.
Party pooper...