@SadieMartinPaul; (MIght you mean evaluate, rate, assess, judge, gauge, , estimate, appraise, analyze, rather than equivocate?
Equivocate: _ to prevaricate, be evasive, noncommittal or vague, dodge the question, beat around the bush, hedge, vacillate, shilly-shally, waver; temporize, hesitate, stall, hem and haw;_)