alt Hacker NewsHow is that relevant for the average buyer (as much as these things have an average buyer anyway)? Precision, accuracy, and battery life is helpful info but the inner components are an irrelevant detail. It's not like having a high quality part prevents them from using it wrong anyway.
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> How is that relevant for the average buyer
Avg buyer wont read a token of tests before buying whats marketed best.the whole point in test like these is to provide non-average buyer with info average buyer doesnt care for.
People who read ingredients lists of food are a tiny, parochial subset of consumers and yet they strongly influence what is on shelves.
The average person doesn’t read Hacker News, so why does it exist, and why are you here in the comments?
Similar reasons: the intended audience isn’t the average person.
The datasheet gives you much better fidelity data than an N=1 test. You'll never know what the tolerance is if you're just looking at one unit. Presumably the average buyer cares if they expect the temperature sensor to be 5% off on the unit they buy. The accuracy of all of these sensors have ratings, but they are often just copying the value on one component and not even considering a stackup. Devils lie in details.