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Nerf N-Strike Elite Retaliator Blaster
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Our algorithm has detected a large amount of suspicious negative reviews. Learn more about Review Brigades.
Amazon Reviews for  Nerf N-Strike Elite Retaliator Blaster
Rating:
3,141 Ratings
1,875 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
29% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Mar 31, 2021
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 3,141 Ratings, we counted 1,875 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

Report Card

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

Most Trusted Reviews

5/5
My grandson loves his gun it was hard for him ... [Go to full review]
Nov 16, 2020      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.9)


Least Trusted Reviews

As expected! [Go to full review]
Jan 27, 2017      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Overrepresented word count (2 words)
  • Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Brand Repeater (4 of 26 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)


Analysis Details

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


82 of the 1,875 reviewers have only reviewed this product. The One-Hit Wonders have rated this product an average of 2.8 while the reviewers who have posted more than one review have rated this product an average of 3.7. 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


2.8
3.7


Take-Back Reviewers


732 of the 1,875 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. The Take-Back Reviewers have rated this product an average of 3.9 while the reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history have rated this product an average of 3.5. 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 take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


3.9
3.5


Single-Day Reviewers


58 of the 1,875 reviewers have written multiple reviews but posted all of them on a single day. The Single-Day reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.5 while all other reviewers rated this product an average of 3.6. 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 single-day reviewers

from non-single-day reviewers


4.5
3.6


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Fail Word Count Comparison

  • 23%
  • 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 440 reviews (or 23%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.3, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 3.5. 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


4.3
3.5


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Fail 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:
29 reviews
(3.2/5)
Common Phrases in Titles:
60 reviews
(4.1/5)
79 reviews
(4.0/5)
73 reviews
(4.1/5)


19 of the 1,875 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.5 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 3.7. 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 substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.5
3.7


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

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

1% also reviewed:
Fire by Amazon

1% also reviewed:
Amazon Store Card by Synchrony Bank

Does not include products
from the same brand


157 of the 1,875 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.3 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 3.6. 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 reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.3
3.6


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Fail Reviewer Participation

  • 50%
  • 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:In total, we found that 936 reviewers (or 50%) are within an overrepresented participation group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 3.3, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 4.0. 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 reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


3.3
4.0


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Warn Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 72 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.1. 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.

4.1 average rating of deleted reviews

4.1


Show distribution of deleted reviews

Warn Rating Trend

  • 9%
  • Created over 30 days

We counted 1,875 reviews for this product over the span of 3,183 days, an average of 0.6 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 30 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 178 reviews were created on just 30 days. Although any days with a larger number of reviews than expected is suspicious, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


3.7
3.7


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


542 of the 1,875 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


4.2
3.4


Brand Loyalists


41 of the 1,875 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


4.2
3.7


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

333 of the 1,875 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


3.3
3.7


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 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 4.1, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.

4.1 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.1
4.3


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.

  • 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.