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Originally Posted by mezzanine
They'll try to convince you that weight is a useless metric for anticipating how it will subjectively feel to each individual's perceptual experience of holding the device. You simply can't know unless you've personally held it.
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That's actually true, unless you know exactly how much is too much for you. For example, I know that over 250g
might be too heavy and over 300g
is certainly too heavy for me. But anything less than 300g depends on personal experience. i.e. how it feels in my hand.
As to subjectivity, all humans are subjective on all subjects. Else we would be robots. That doesn't lessen the value of learning about other people's experiences and considering how much of that is applicable to you personally.
And I haven't noticed much purchase justifying going on here on MR. Many members talk about various faults of their purchased devices and even return them. When someone is content with their purchase and mentions good things about it, that doesn't necessarily mean they justify and rationalize. What, no one can ever be satisfied with their purchase without rationalizing?
As to the independent reviewers you praise, I've noticed they tend to be much less critical of the devices they review than MR posters who buy them.