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Dr. J.H. McLean's Volcanic Oil Pain Relieving Liniment , 4 Ounces
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Amazon Reviews for  Dr. J.H. McLean's Volcanic Oil Pain Relieving Liniment , 4 Ounces
Rating:
431 Ratings
100 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
0% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Jul 25, 2023
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 431 Ratings, we counted 100 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

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Pass Overall Grade
FAIL Deleted Reviews
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Reviewer Ease
WARN Word Count Comparison
WARN Phrase Repetition
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

I sprained my back muscles adding more damage to an ... [Go to full review]
Sep 7, 2022      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.0)


Least Trusted Reviews

This Used to be 5 dollars and know why dos ... [Go to full review]
Sep 1, 2019      
24% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Overrepresented word count (13 words)
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.8)


Analysis Details

Fail Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 38 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.7. Even though deleted reviews don't affect the average rating, the fact that action was taken to delete reviews raises some red flags about the integrity of the reviews for the product as whole.

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.

4.7 average rating of deleted reviews

4.7


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Warn Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers


41 of the 100 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.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.1
4.7


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Warn 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 4.3. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.

4.5 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.5
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Warn Word Count Comparison

  • 30%
  • 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 30 reviews (or 30%) 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.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.2
4.6


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Warn 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:
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
4 reviews
(4.8/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(4.5/5)
3 reviews
(4.7/5)
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Common Phrases in Titles:
77 reviews
(5.0/5)
11 reviews
(4.0/5)
9 reviews
(1.0/5)
2 reviews
(3.0/5)
100 reviews
(4.5/5)
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84 of the 100 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.4
4.7


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Pass Rating Trend

  • 0%
  • Created over 1 day
We counted 100 reviews for this product over the span of 3,092 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 2 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 0 reviews were created on just 1 day. 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 Rating Trend test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

10 of the 100 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.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.5
4.5


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 Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:

3% also reviewed:
Amazon Prime Video by Amazon.com

Does not include products
from the same brand


13 of the 100 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.

from reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.0
4.5


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Reviewer Participation

  • 0%
  • From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We didn't find any participation groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

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.

  • 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.