Hair Straighteners Rating Research Proposal

Hair Straightening Irons are globally popular, and with it’s hair straightening and curling usefulness from various brands and models, has resulted in thousands of user online text based reviews, images, and videos. This suggests that many users have tested, compared, and researched beforehand to ultimately select their particular straightener. They might have been influenced from these online reviews, possibly including their own personal experience. Because even if comparing similar looking hair straighteners, but from different brands, it might largely hinge on personal choice. Selection choice such as pricing, certain iron’s features, extra’s such as training videos, discounts at the local salon, inclusion of several accessories and so on, might perceive that brand to be the one to purchase.


Reason for a Hair Straightener’s Rating Factor

With so many hair straightener brands and models, like so many cars or mobile phones, personal choice would be a determining factor, if taking the time to research properly for selection. What would help if there were a rating factor, based on qualitative and recognized test procedure(s). Maybe based on ISO test procedures and accreditation, or some authoritative and certified testing agency. Possibly hair straightener manufacture’s are performing accredited test procedures, and documenting results, but nothing has been published of significance, including online I believe.

There is no mention of any unit or rating factor from any online reviews on the Internet. Remember the hair iron, at its core, is basically a simple hand held heating unit. Because they are popular, possibly essential, they may one day if not already, become a commodity. If so, then perhaps having a “qualitative reference factor” could help elevate a hair iron’s “rank” - useful for comparative evaluations. Currently, and understandably, it’s all about (or it seems), about features - you know the ones - tourmaline plate technology, heat up times, auto switch off, universal voltage, floating plates, and so on.

Chart of Hair Straightener Reviews and a Rating Factor

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Determining and Qualifying a Rating Factor

There are hair straightener patents online, but generally relate to general description and descriptive application. So a feature rating or factor unit, possibly standardized globally, could help rank a hair iron’s overall status, and provide meaningful comparison against other straighteners. Much like a light bulb’s expectancy (in hours -hrs), rechargeable batteries (charge capacity - mAh), or a new car engine power rating - another global popular item (e.g. power or torque output, - e.g. Nm/3000 revs), or photo file (pixel count - px).

Possibly an iron’s separate features could be assessed, somehow calculated mathematically, and then combined to yield an overall qualitative numerical factor. Such a factor then could be indexed or compared against the iron’s cost, and possibly produce a useful, and eventually authoritative comparative costing database, including easy chart analysis. If research is being scientifically done, then perhaps it’s time that the results be combined and calculated to produce an overall qualitative rating factor, which may help buyers of hair straighteners better select a unit for their hair.

Hair Straighteners Rating Research Proposal