• 28
• Reviews have been deleted

We discovered a total of 28 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.

Show distribution of deleted reviews

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• 88%
• Created over 16 days

We counted 318 reviews for this product over the span of 2,424 days, an average of 0.1 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 16 days exceeding this threshold:

• 44 Reviews on Apr 11, 2013 (Avg. rating: 4.7)
• 35 Reviews on Apr 4, 2013 (Avg. rating: 4.7)
• 34 Reviews on Apr 9, 2013 (Avg. rating: 4.6)
• 31 Reviews on Apr 3, 2013 (Avg. rating: 4.4)
• 29 Reviews on Apr 8, 2013 (Avg. rating: 4.6)
• 23 Reviews on Apr 10, 2013 (Avg. rating: 4.5)
• 22 Reviews on Apr 12, 2013 (Avg. rating: 4.9)
• 21 Reviews on Apr 5, 2013 (Avg. rating: 4.7)
• 8 Reviews on Apr 7, 2013 (Avg. rating: 4.1)
• 7 Reviews on Apr 6, 2013 (Avg. rating: 3.9)
• 6 Reviews on Apr 14, 2013 (Avg. rating: 4.3)
• 5 Reviews on May 28, 2013 (Avg. rating: 4.2)
• 5 Reviews on Apr 15, 2013 (Avg. rating: 3.4)
• 4 Reviews on May 20, 2013 (Avg. rating: 5.0)
• 4 Reviews on May 24, 2013 (Avg. rating: 4.8)
• 3 Reviews on Apr 13, 2013 (Avg. rating: 4.7)
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In total, we found that 281 reviews were created on just 16 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

Read more about our Rating Trend test.

• 
• 93%
• Unverified Purchases

295 of the 318 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. This is an excessively large percentage of unverified purchases and it may indicate unnatural reviews.

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.

One-Hit Wonders

• 
• 14%
• have only posted one review

43 of the 318 reviewers have only reviewed this product. While this is more One-Hit Wonders than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the One-Hit Wonders and reviewers who have posted more than one review isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

Never-Verified Reviewers

• 
• 36%
• have zero verified purchases

113 of the 318 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. While this is more Never-Verified Reviewers than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

Take-Back Reviewers

• 
• 30%
• have previously deleted reviews

94 of the 318 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.

Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

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.

• 
• 61%
• 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 2 groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:

• 26-40 words: 28.6% (Avg. rating: 4.6)
• 41-65 words: 32.7% (Avg. rating: 4.6)

In total, we found that 195 reviews (or 61%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is an excessively high number of reviews in overrepresented word count groups.

Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

• 
• 71%
• Used substantial repetitive phrases

226 of the 318 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.

Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

• 
• 71%
• 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:

• Reviewers with 1-5 Reviews: 39.6% (Avg. rating: 4.6)
• Reviewers with 6-15 Reviews: 31.5% (Avg. rating: 4.6)

In total, we found that 226 reviewers (or 71%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.

Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

• 
• 22%
• Substantial overlapping review history

70 of the 318 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.

Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Brand Repeaters

• 
• 12%
• Reviewed other products from this brand

38 of the 318 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.

Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

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.