EarthTimes.org: “Consumer Reports Names Their All-Star Appliances”:
“Our brand-repair histories are culled from approximately 450,000 respondents reporting on nearly 2.5 million appliances,” said Robert Markovich, editor at Consumer Reports. “Choosing a reliable brand will boost a consumer’s odds of getting a reliable model and in the end often save consumers money.”
You can even say the report was ‘crowdsourced’.
Now if only we could collate a list of safe and fun toys that parents would want to buy.