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Gene Simmons
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Our algorithm has detected a large amount of suspicious negative reviews. Learn more about Review Brigades.
Amazon Reviews for  Gene Simmons
Rating:
27 Ratings
27 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
70% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Unverified Purchases
FAIL Brand Repeats
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Phrase Repetition
FAIL Reviewer Participation
WARN Overlapping Review History
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

Oh dear, he really upset the Kiss fans, didn't he? ... [Go to full review]
Oct 22, 2009      
70% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Brand Repeater (6 of 102 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.2)
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 102 Reviews)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.3)


Least Trusted Reviews

Judging from the cover this is going to rock, yeah? ... [Go to full review]
Jan 7, 2005      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Never-Verified Reviewer
  • Brand Monogamist (2 of 2 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 1.0)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 1.0)


Analysis Details

Fail Unverified Purchases

15 of the 27 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 2.7 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.7. 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.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


2.7
4.7


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.

Fail Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


10 of the 27 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


2.9
3.9


Brand Monogamists


2 of the 27 reviewers have reviewed multiple products, but only for this brand. This is an excessively large percentage of Brand Monogamists which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from Brand Monogamists

from Non-Monogamists


1.0
3.8


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

Never-Verified Reviewers


6 of the 27 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. The Never-Verified Reviewers have rated this product an average of 1.8 while the reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review 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.

from never-verified reviewers

from reviewers with at least one verified purchase review


1.8
4.1


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Fail Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.



7 of the 27 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 2.6 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 3.9. 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.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


2.6
3.9


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Fail Reviewer Participation

  • 74%
  • 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:In total, we found that 20 reviewers (or 74%) are within an overrepresented participation group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.0, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 2.3. 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.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.0
2.3


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Warn Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:

33% also reviewed:
Love Gun by CD

30% also reviewed:
Kiss-Animalize by CD

26% also reviewed:
Hot in the Shade by Umgd/Mercury

22% also reviewed:
Alive III by Virgin Emi Records

Does not include products
from the same brand


19 of the 27 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. While this is more than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between these reviewers and reviewers who have a more unique product review history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

from reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


3.7
3.3


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Rating Trend

  • 0%
  • Created on high-volume days
We counted 27 reviews for this product over the span of 4,890 days, an average of 0.0 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 1 or fewer reviews on any given day. We didn't find any days exceeding this threshold.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Pass Word Count Comparison

  • 0%
  • Have an overrepresented word count
We didn't find any review word count groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Pass Reviewer Ease
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, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.4.

4.0 Product's Average Ease Score

4.4 Category's Average Ease Score


4.0
4.4


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


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

  • 0%
  • Admitted to receiving an incentive
We didn't detect any reviews that used language indicating they were incentivized.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.

Pass Deleted Reviews
  • 0
  • Reviews have been deleted
We have not discovered any deleted reviews for this product.

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.