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Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
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Pass Overall Grade
FAIL
Rating Trend

FAIL
Suspicious Reviewers

WARN
Reviewer Participation

PASS
Unverified Purchases

PASS
Word Count Comparison

PASS
Phrase Repetition

PASS
Overlapping Review History

PASS
Reviewer Ease

PASS
Brand Repeats

PASS
Incentivized Reviews

PASS
Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
Advantages:- It works 'ok'- Solar powered so no extra costs- ... [Go to full review]
Sep 9, 2007
100%
TRUST
TRUST
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Unverified Purchaser
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Never-Verified Reviewer
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Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 4.0)
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Overlapping Review History: reviewed 3 of 9 top products
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.8)
Least Trusted Reviews
Totally useless [Go to full review]
Apr 1, 2016
0%
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TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 4 Reviews)
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.0)
Analysis Details
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Rating Trend

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- 3%
- Created over 2 days
We counted 207 reviews for this product over the span of 4,337 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 2 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 2 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 6 reviews were created on just 2 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 4.3 while reviews from other days have rated this product an average of 3.1. 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.
Fail
Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders
15 of the 207 reviewers have only reviewed this product. The One-Hit Wonders have rated this product an average of 2.3 while the reviewers who have posted more than one review have rated this product an average of 3.2. 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.
Warn
Reviewer Participation

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- 71%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 2 participation groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 146 reviewers (or 71%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass
Unverified Purchases

17 of the 207 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
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.
Pass
Word Count Comparison

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- 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.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.
Pass
Phrase Repetition

Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
Common Phrases in Reviews:
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3 reviews
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5 reviews
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2 reviews
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3 reviews
(2.0/5)
(2.0/5)
2 reviews
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2 reviews
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3 reviews
(4.7/5)
(4.7/5)
2 reviews
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Common Phrases in Titles:
3 reviews
(1.0/5)
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2 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
4 reviews
(1.3/5)
(1.3/5)
11 of the 207 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass
Overlapping Review History

Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
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from the same brand
19 of the 207 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
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 3.8, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.4.
3.8 Product's Average Ease Score
4.4 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass
Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters
We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.
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.
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- 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.
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:
There are a few limitations to keep in mind regarding the Deleted Reviews test:
- 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.
- We have no information on reviews that were never published in the first place.
- 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.