02-01-2021, 03:05 PM
(01-15-2021, 01:52 PM)PWJ22 Wrote: I'd be interested to hear others experience of using Wedinos. Does everyone feel the results are reliable / accurate? Or has anyone experienced mistakes / errors that made them doubt the results?
Personally, I've always trusted the results, but another user commented in a different thread:
"with wedinos id be careful now to 100 % believe . i used to rely on them and 99 % the item is what its supposed to be - but i dont think they are true with all the results on many items . i also think theres an agenda to publish the wrong description to stop folk buying such items . i had a little thing a bit back that made me think that ( 2 tabs from same box - 2 different results . 1 was correct ) ."
I'd be interested to hear what others think.
There must some error rate... With the number of samples they test there's got to be a little bit of human error e.g. accidental contamination of a sample, or just getting two samples muddled. They are professionals so I'd like to think their error rate is low, but I doubt it is zero.
A project like WEDINOS will have been through at least one ethics committee and deception is incredibly hard to get approved - it usually means some T&Cs where you consent to the possibility of being deceived. If it has any NHS connection, even as minor as advertising in GP waiting rooms, or details in a hospital, or funding, then it would have also been through IRAS (a really tight ethics committee for the NHS). I think it's incredibly unlikely that they'd have ethical approval to mislead people. I can't prove that, but over the years I've had a lot of dealings with ethics committees and they are VERY cautious about what they allow.
I think it's sensible not to take everything at face value, but in this case I'm 99% sure they report honestly but with the occasional error.