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Idahoan Buttery Homestyle Mashed Potatoes, 4 oz (Pack of 12)
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This report was last updated 7/13/2023.
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Pass Overall Grade
FAIL Unverified Purchases
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Word Count Comparison
WARN Phrase Repetition
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
N/A Reviewer Participation
Most Trusted Reviews
I found out the hard way I was looking for ... [Go to full review]
Apr 15, 2011
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.5)
Least Trusted Reviews
What human being would put sugar in mashed potatoes?? Nasty. ... [Go to full review]
May 20, 2023
0%
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TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Overrepresented word count (14 words)
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.3)
Analysis Details
Fail Unverified Purchases
27 of the 1,605 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 1.5 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 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.
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.
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
Approximately 30% of 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, the discrepancy in ratings between the Take-Back Reviewers and reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Word Count Comparison
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- ~45%
- 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 approximately 45% are within an overrepresented word count group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented word count groups than we'd expect to see, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Warn Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
Over approximately 90% of reviews use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Pass Rating Trend
We didn't notice any signals that would indicate reviews were created unevenly over time.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
<10% also reviewed:
Saucony Women's Multipack Performance... by Saucony
Less than approximately 10% of 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 4.4, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.
4.4 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
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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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- <10%
- 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.