Linus Tech Tips

Then they need to preface every video with that. "We ran all these benchmarks and testing using hundred-thousand-dollar equipment and are presenting this as a factual review, but please keep in mind this is all entertainment and not educational and the numbers are made up so just disregard this whole video."

I would contend that most of the YouTube tech channels, even the ones with great reputations for quality such as Hardware Unboxed and Gamers Nexus are barely educational as well.

While they can point to fewer mistakes made as a result of their methodologies, I don't believe there is any real scientific value in the conclusions they reach from testing that is far too limited with far too small a sample size. They can paint broad recommendations - product A should be better than product B because our testing showed 20% better numbers.

But when the metric variances between products are small, none of the testing methodologies can really tell you which of the products will work better in your system. They haven't tested enough of them, and in enough situations to have a clue. And I think any of them claiming that there is inherent value to their methods are really just defending their product which is the video they're getting eyeballs in front of so they can make money from advertising.