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Most Trusted Reviews
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 4.0)
- Brand Repeater (4 of 63 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 3.8)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.4)
Least Trusted Reviews
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Brand Repeater (2 of 11 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 11 Reviews)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.2)
Analysis Details
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(4.2/5)
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(4.6/5)
(4.9/5)
228 of the 1,617 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.6 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.3. 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.
We discovered a total of 35 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.4. 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:
- 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.
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- 17%
- Created over 35 days
We counted 1,617 reviews for this product over the span of 3,463 days, an average of 0.5 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 4 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 35 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 280 reviews were created on just 35 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Brand Repeaters
697 of the 1,617 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Repeaters and non-repeaters isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Take-Back Reviewers
667 of the 1,617 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.
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- 63%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 3 participation groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 1021 reviewers (or 63%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
531 of the 1,617 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
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.
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432 of the 1,617 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.
4.2 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
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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.