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 4.2. 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.

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• 39%
• Created over 22 days

We counted 412 reviews for this product over the span of 2,782 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 22 days exceeding this threshold:

• 26 Reviews on Sep 30, 2009 (Avg. rating: 4.0)
• 23 Reviews on Sep 29, 2009 (Avg. rating: 4.5)
• 14 Reviews on Oct 2, 2009 (Avg. rating: 4.6)
• 14 Reviews on Oct 1, 2009 (Avg. rating: 4.0)
• 11 Reviews on Oct 6, 2009 (Avg. rating: 4.7)
• 8 Reviews on Oct 4, 2009 (Avg. rating: 4.8)
• 8 Reviews on Oct 9, 2009 (Avg. rating: 3.3)
• 6 Reviews on Oct 5, 2009 (Avg. rating: 5.0)
• 6 Reviews on Oct 13, 2009 (Avg. rating: 4.5)
• 6 Reviews on Oct 3, 2009 (Avg. rating: 4.2)
• 5 Reviews on Oct 16, 2009 (Avg. rating: 4.2)
• 4 Reviews on Oct 8, 2009 (Avg. rating: 5.0)
• 4 Reviews on Oct 24, 2009 (Avg. rating: 4.8)
• 3 Reviews on Oct 11, 2009 (Avg. rating: 5.0)
• 3 Reviews on Nov 21, 2014 (Avg. rating: 5.0)
• 3 Reviews on Oct 21, 2009 (Avg. rating: 4.7)
• 3 Reviews on Oct 30, 2009 (Avg. rating: 4.7)
• 3 Reviews on Nov 8, 2009 (Avg. rating: 4.7)
• 3 Reviews on Dec 24, 2009 (Avg. rating: 4.7)
• 3 Reviews on Oct 15, 2009 (Avg. rating: 4.3)
• 3 Reviews on Oct 23, 2009 (Avg. rating: 4.3)
• 3 Reviews on Aug 29, 2013 (Avg. rating: 4.0)
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In total, we found that 162 reviews were created on just 22 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

Read more about our Rating Trend test.

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• 55%
• Unverified Purchases

228 of the 412 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. While this is a higher percentage of unverified purchases than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

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.

Never-Verified Reviewers

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• 26%
• have zero verified purchases

108 of the 412 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. While this is more Never-Verified Reviewers than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

Take-Back Reviewers

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• 8%
• have previously deleted reviews

33 of the 412 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.

Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

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• 42%
• Used substantial repetitive phrases

175 of the 412 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.

Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

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• 78%
• 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:

• Reviewers with 1-5 Reviews: 25.7% (Avg. rating: 4.3)
• Reviewers with 6-15 Reviews: 51.9% (Avg. rating: 4.4)

In total, we found that 320 reviewers (or 78%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.

Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

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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.

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• 31%
• Substantial overlapping review history

129 of the 412 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.

Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Brand Repeaters

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• 5%
• Reviewed other products from this brand

20 of the 412 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.

Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

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.

• 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:

1. 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.
2. We have no information on reviews that were never published in the first place.
3. 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.

Read more about our Deleted Reviews test.