Suffering from Seasonal Depression?

This blog reviews the best (and worst!) light therapy lamps and sun lamps for treating Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Best Therapy Lamps: How to Read Product Reviews

This may seem like a no-brainer, but when choosing a therapy lamp for Seasonal Affective Disorder, you can get a lot of information from product reviews. The trick, however, is to know how to interpret them. For instance, let's say a therapy lamp has an average review of 5 stars on Amazon. That makes it a great lamp, right? Well, maybe it is. But how many reviews are there? If there's only one or two reviews, that's not a lot of information to go on. On the other hand, if there are 397 reviews that average out to 4.5 stars, that tells you a lot. It tells you that nearly four hundred people used this lamp, and it worked so well for them that they made sure to review it. I've also found it useful to read the least-positive reviews for any product I'm considering. If there are a lot of reviews that say that the product only lasted a few weeks before breaking, that tells me that the product is pretty bad. If the worst reviews are more along the lines of "this lamp would have been fine but it was too big for my desk", that tells me something else. It tells me that the therapy light is probably a good one, but that I should look at the dimensions carefully before buying.

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