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 4.4, 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.

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• 43%
• Created over 10 days

We counted 185 reviews for this product over the span of 1,229 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 2 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 10 days exceeding this threshold:

• 17 Reviews on May 15, 2014 (Avg. rating: 4.5)
• 13 Reviews on May 17, 2014 (Avg. rating: 4.8)
• 13 Reviews on May 19, 2014 (Avg. rating: 4.6)
• 9 Reviews on May 16, 2014 (Avg. rating: 4.6)
• 6 Reviews on May 20, 2014 (Avg. rating: 4.7)
• 5 Reviews on May 26, 2014 (Avg. rating: 4.8)
• 5 Reviews on May 18, 2014 (Avg. rating: 4.0)
• 5 Reviews on May 21, 2014 (Avg. rating: 4.0)
• 3 Reviews on May 25, 2014 (Avg. rating: 4.3)
• 3 Reviews on Jun 8, 2014 (Avg. rating: 4.3)
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In total, we found that 79 reviews were created on just 10 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

Read more about our Rating Trend test.

On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.

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• 8%
• Admitted to receiving an incentive

15 of the 185 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is more than we would expect see; the presences of at least one incentivized review indicates that there may be more, since not all reviewers will disclose that they had received an incentive to post a review.

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

Brand Loyalists

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• 2%
• Reviewed mostly products from this brand

4 of the 185 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.

Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

Take-Back Reviewers

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• 9%
• have previously deleted reviews

16 of the 185 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.

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• 45%
• Used substantial repetitive phrases

83 of the 185 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.

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• 34%
• Unverified Purchases

63 of the 185 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

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.

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• 41%
• Substantial overlapping review history

76 of the 185 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.

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• 0%
• From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

We didn't find any participation groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

• 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.