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From Joleene Naylor
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Most Trusted Reviews
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- Verified Purchaser
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 2 of 9 top products
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.9)
Least Trusted Reviews
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Take-Back Reviewer (3 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 3.7)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)
Analysis Details
Take-Back Reviewers
4 of the 51 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. The Take-Back Reviewers have rated this product an average of 3.8 while the reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history 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.
4.5 Product's Average Ease Score
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
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- 8%
- Created over 2 days
We counted 51 reviews for this product over the span of 2,870 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.
However, we see the following 2 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 4 reviews were created on just 2 days. Although any days with a larger number of reviews than expected is suspicious, the discrepancy in ratings from reviews created on these high volume days and reviews created on other days isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
26 of the 51 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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- 55%
- 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 28 reviewers (or 55%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
15 of the 51 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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18 of the 51 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.
Brand Repeaters
4 of the 51 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.
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- Reviews have been deleted
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.