But research on the biases and demographics of online reviewers — and our own, often errant interpretations — suggests that our faith in reviews is misguided.
Out of laziness, haste or a misguided effort to sound "literary," reviewers use some words with startling predictability.
Of course, sometimes the reviewers' requests are misguided or based on faulty reasoning.
Westendorp asked Vandenbroucke, who was a co-author, to explain to the journal's editor, a friend of the more senior epidemiologist, why one reviewer's comments were misguided.
The reviewer's implied moral outrage is misguided.
The Hollywood Reporter reviewer Michael Rechtshaffen wrote that the song was a "misguided attempt at marrying Hannah's contemporary pop/hip-hop sound with the Grand Ole Opry" and that it was "squirm-inducing".
The second reviewer, if nothing else, was thorough and creative: He wrote three pages of trivial, misguided comments, and he criticized the paper for advocating a concept it didn't even mention.
Less enamoured reviewers have called it "tiresome", "kitsch", "mush", "tacky", irritating, "offensive", "crass" and "colossally misguided".
Allmusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine viewed the toast as a mistake, and Blender's Rupert Howe found the foray into dancehall misguided, leaving Bounty Killer sounding bored.
Pitchfork Media reviewer Ryan Dombal gave a score of 4.2 out of 10, stating, "the album's ballyhooed experimentation is either terribly misguided or hidden underneath a wash of shameless U2-isms".
