How does PC World break ties?
In print or online, the score you see is rounded off to the nearest half star. You may see ties in our rankings; in fact, products rarely get exactly the same score, as our rating system calculates scores out to the first decimal. When you see, for example, two products with 3 stars as the overall score, the reason one ranks higher than the other is that the two products’ true scores are different. In the event of a true statistical tie, when the product ratings (including the first decimal) are identical, we employ a tiebreaker in which the product with the highest performance score wins. If a tie still exists, the product with the highest features score wins. Design is the final tiebreaker. If we still have a tie after that, alphabetization triumphs.
