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doTERRA - Balance Essential Oil Grounding Blend - 15 mL
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Amazon Reviews for  doTERRA - Balance Essential Oil Grounding Blend - 15 mL
Rating:
719 Ratings
725 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
2% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Jun 20, 2020
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 719 Ratings, we counted 725 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
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Word Count Comparison
WARN Brand Repeats
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Phrase Repetition
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

I use this when I do acupuncture treatments [Go to full review]
Oct 31, 2018      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser

Reviewer data not yet gathered.


Least Trusted Reviews

ALTERED OIL. DO NOT BUY. Pure oils are not supposed ... [Go to full review]
Jan 21, 2016      
0% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • One-Hit Wonder
  • Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 2.0)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 1.0)


Analysis Details

Fail Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 55 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:
  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.

4.4 average rating of deleted reviews

4.4


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Fail Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


19 of the 725 reviewers have only reviewed this product. The One-Hit Wonders have rated this product an average of 2.7 while the reviewers who have posted more than one review 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.

from one-hit wonders

from reviewers with more than one review


2.7
4.4


Take-Back Reviewers


351 of the 725 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.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.4
4.2


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Fail Word Count Comparison

  • 26%
  • 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 185 reviews (or 26%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.7, while all other reviews 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.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.7
4.2


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Warn Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


326 of the 725 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.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


4.6
4.1


Brand Loyalists


15 of the 725 reviewers have reviewed multiple products but half or more of their reviews are for this brand. While this is more Brand Loyalists than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Loyalists and non-loyalists isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

from Brand Loyalists

from Non-Loyalists


4.6
4.3


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

Pass Rating Trend

  • 2%
  • Created over 4 days

We counted 725 reviews for this product over the span of 3,124 days, an average of 0.2 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 3 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 4 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 16 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.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


3.8
4.3


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

34 of the 725 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


4.2
4.3


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 Phrase Repetition
  • 0%
  • Used substantial repetitive phrases
0 of the 725 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.
Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

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

Does not include products
from the same brand


81 of the 725 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


4.5
4.3


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Reviewer Participation

  • 29%
  • From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

We see the following 1 participation group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 211 reviewers (or 29%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.2
4.4


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

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 4.4.

4.3 Product's Average Ease Score

4.4 Category's Average Ease Score


4.3
4.4


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


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.


1 of the 725 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from incentivized reviews

from non-incentivized reviews


5.0
4.3


Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.