• 41
• Reviews have been deleted

We discovered a total of 41 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.5. Even though deleted reviews don't affect the average rating, the fact that action was taken to delete reviews raises some red flags about the integrity of the reviews for the product as whole.

There are a few limitations to keep in mind regarding the Deleted Reviews test:

1. We don't have a magic ability to collect every single deleted review; we can only identify reviews as deleted if we collect them on one date and then notice they are no longer visible on a subsequent date.
2. We have no information on reviews that were never published in the first place.
3. We also don't know why these reviews were removed. It could be action from the platform, personal decision by the review author, part of an entire account closure, even some data error on our part, etc.

Read more about our Deleted Reviews test.

Show distribution of deleted reviews

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• 84%
• Unverified Purchases

359 of the 428 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.5 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 3.5. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.

Unverified purchases may be the result of Kindle Unlimited readers, buyers who didn't pay full price, or reviewers who did not purchase the product at Amazon. Read more about our Unverified Purchases test.

Never-Verified Reviewers

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• 19%
• have zero verified purchases

82 of the 428 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. The Never-Verified Reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.5 while the reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review rated this product an average of 4.3. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.

Take-Back Reviewers

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• 38%
• have previously deleted reviews

161 of the 428 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. While this is more Take-Back Reviewers than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Take-Back Reviewers and reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

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• 73%
• Used substantial repetitive phrases

314 of the 428 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.4 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.1. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.

Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

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• 44%
• Substantial overlapping review history

189 of the 428 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.5 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 4.2. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.

Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

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• 19%
• Created over 15 days

We counted 428 reviews for this product over the span of 1,763 days, an average of 0.2 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 3 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 15 days exceeding this threshold:

• 8 Reviews on Feb 1, 2016 (Avg. rating: 5.0)
• 7 Reviews on Jan 31, 2016 (Avg. rating: 5.0)
• 7 Reviews on Apr 6, 2016 (Avg. rating: 4.9)
• 7 Reviews on Nov 22, 2016 (Avg. rating: 4.7)
• 7 Reviews on Nov 21, 2016 (Avg. rating: 2.9)
• 6 Reviews on Feb 3, 2016 (Avg. rating: 5.0)
• 5 Reviews on Nov 19, 2016 (Avg. rating: 5.0)
• 5 Reviews on Feb 7, 2016 (Avg. rating: 4.4)
• 5 Reviews on Nov 20, 2016 (Avg. rating: 4.4)
• 5 Reviews on Nov 23, 2016 (Avg. rating: 4.2)
• 5 Reviews on Nov 8, 2016 (Avg. rating: 3.2)
• 4 Reviews on Oct 25, 2016 (Avg. rating: 5.0)
• 4 Reviews on Sep 4, 2017 (Avg. rating: 4.8)
• 4 Reviews on Apr 5, 2016 (Avg. rating: 4.5)
• 4 Reviews on Aug 19, 2016 (Avg. rating: 3.5)
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In total, we found that 83 reviews were created on just 15 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

Read more about our Rating Trend test.

The ease score is the average rating for all reviews that a given reviewer submits. The average ease score for reviewers of this product is 4.3, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 3.9. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.

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• 53%
• Have an overrepresented word count

In the graph above, we can see the distribution of review word counts for this product and the expected distribution for this category. We see the following 2 groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:

• 26-40 words: 26.6% (Avg. rating: 4.3)
• 41-65 words: 26.2% (Avg. rating: 4.4)

In total, we found that 226 reviews (or 53%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is an excessively high number of reviews in overrepresented word count groups.

Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

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• 43%
• From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

We see the following 1 participation group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:

• Reviewers with 6-15 Reviews: 43.0% (Avg. rating: 4.2)

In total, we found that 184 reviewers (or 43%) are within an overrepresented participation group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented participation groups than we'd expect to see, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Brand Repeaters

We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.

On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.

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• 0%
• Admitted to receiving an incentive

2 of the 428 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.