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Home Alone
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Amazon Reviews for  Home Alone
Rating:
3,312 Ratings
3,310 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
51% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Aug 9, 2017
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 3,312 Ratings, we counted 3,310 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

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Report Card

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

Most Trusted Reviews

We couldn't find any quality reviews

Least Trusted Reviews

this is a awesome movie. this is really one of ... [Go to full review]
Dec 26, 2015      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Take-Back Reviewer (331 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.8)
  • Brand Repeater (2 of 2707 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 6 of 9 top products
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.8)


Analysis Details

Fail Rating Trend

  • 48%
  • Created over 163 days

We counted 3,310 reviews for this product over the span of 6,824 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 163 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 1,603 reviews were created on just 163 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 4.7 while reviews from other days have rated this product an average of 4.6. 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 reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.7
4.6


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


343 of the 3,310 reviewers have only reviewed this product. While this is more One-Hit Wonders than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from one-hit wonders

from reviewers with more than one review


4.5
4.7


Take-Back Reviewers


315 of the 3,310 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 4.7 while the reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history have rated this product an average of 4.6. 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 take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.7
4.6


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Fail 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. 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.

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.


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

4% also reviewed:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

3% also reviewed:
Elf (plus bonus features) by

Does not include products
from the same brand


542 of the 3,310 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.7 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 4.6. 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


4.7
4.6


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 33%
  • 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 1102 reviewers (or 34%) are within an overrepresented participation group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented participation groups than we'd expect to see, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.6
4.7


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

426 of the 3,310 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
4.7


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 Word Count Comparison

  • 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.

Pass 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:
Common Phrases in Titles:
94 reviews
57 reviews
40 reviews


102 of the 3,310 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.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.8
4.7


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


328 of the 3,310 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.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


4.6
4.7


Read more about our Brand Repeats 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.

Pass Deleted Reviews
  • 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.