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Paper Mate 85582 Flexgrip Elite Retractable Ballpoint Pens, Fine Point, Black, 12-Pack
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Last Updated: Sep 4, 2017
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Pass Overall Grade
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Overlapping Review History
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Phrase Repetition
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Ink glides easily. [Go to full review]
May 31, 2015
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (5 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 3.8)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.3)
Least Trusted Reviews
I love these pens the clip to tip grip is ... [Go to full review]
Apr 27, 2013
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- One-Hit Wonder
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 1 Review)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
15 of the 456 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 4.2. 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.
Take-Back Reviewers
53 of the 456 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 Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
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from the same brand
from the same brand
51 of the 456 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.6 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history 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.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 53%
- 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 240 reviewers (or 53%) 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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- 3%
- Created over 4 days
We counted 456 reviews for this product over the span of 3,729 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 4 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 13 reviews were created on just 4 days. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass Unverified Purchases
48 of the 456 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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14 reviews
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18 reviews
7 reviews
4 reviews
4 reviews
13 reviews
7 reviews
3 reviews
52 of the 456 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 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 4.3, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.
4.3 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
13 of the 456 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
- 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.