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The Sewing Machine Classroom: Learn the Ins & Outs of Your Machine
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Last Updated: Sep 21, 2017
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Fail Overall Grade
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Suspicious Reviewers

FAIL
Reviewer Ease

WARN
Phrase Repetition

WARN
Reviewer Participation

PASS
Rating Trend

PASS
Unverified Purchases

PASS
Word Count Comparison

PASS
Overlapping Review History

PASS
Brand Repeats

PASS
Incentivized Reviews

PASS
Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
A very good, basic, introduction to using a sewing machine; ... [Go to full review]
Jan 12, 2014
100%
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Take-Back Reviewer (16 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.6)
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.4)
Least Trusted Reviews
I learned a lot by browsing through this book and ... [Go to full review]
Aug 30, 2013 33 of 33 found this helpful.
5%
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Take-Back Reviewer (11 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.6)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.5)
Analysis Details
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Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers
20 of the 137 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. This is an excessively large percentage of Take-Back Reviewers which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Fail
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 4.5, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.4. 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.
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Phrase Repetition

Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
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33 of the 137 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
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Reviewer Participation

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- 61%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 3 participation groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 83 reviewers (or 61%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass
Rating Trend

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We counted 137 reviews for this product over the span of 1,789 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. We didn't find any days exceeding this threshold.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
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Unverified Purchases

12 of the 137 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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- 20%
- 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 1 group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 28 reviews (or 20%) are within an overrepresented word count group. 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:
9% also reviewed:
The Sewing Machine Accessory Bible: Get the Most... by Wendy Gardiner
5% also reviewed:
The Sewing Book: An Encyclopedic Resource of... by Alison Smith
4% also reviewed:
Sew Everything Workshop: The Complete... by Diana Rupp
4% also reviewed:
The Sewing Machine Attachment Handbook by Charlene Phillips
4% also reviewed:
Simply Serging: 25 Fast and Easy Projects for... by Krause Publications
3% also reviewed:
Kindle for PC [Download] by Amazon Digital Services Inc.
3% also reviewed:
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34 of the 137 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
Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters
1 of the 137 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.
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

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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.