How to Brew: Everything You Need To Know To Brew Beer Right The First Time
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From John J. Palmer
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Most Trusted Reviews
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (7 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.4)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Least Trusted Reviews
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 7 Reviews)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.3)
Analysis Details
We discovered a total of 20 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.9. 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:
- 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.
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- 7%
- Created over 21 days
We counted 989 reviews for this product over the span of 6,665 days, an average of 0.1 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 21 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 65 reviews were created on just 21 days. Although any days with a larger number of reviews than expected is suspicious, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Take-Back Reviewers
341 of the 989 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, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
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- 54%
- 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 536 reviewers (or 54%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
139 of the 989 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.
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- 0%
- Have an overrepresented word count
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39 of the 989 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.
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130 of the 989 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.
4.4 Product's Average Ease Score
4.4 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Brand Repeaters
5 of the 989 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
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- 0%
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.