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BTECH PC03 FTDI Genuine USB Programming Cable for BTECH, BaoFeng, Kenwood, and AnyTone Radio
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 8,556 Ratings, we counted 3,830 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
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Pass Overall Grade
FAIL Rating Trend
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Phrase Repetition
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Brand Repeats
WARN Word Count Comparison
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Simple, self explanatory, perfect piece of equipment. The extra money ... [Go to full review]
Oct 28, 2014
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Least Trusted Reviews
Works as advertised. Good company. No problems. [Go to full review]
Aug 30, 2016
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Overrepresented word count (9 words)
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Brand Repeater (2 of 11 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 11 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)
Analysis Details
Fail Rating Trend
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- 2%
- Created over 9 days
We counted 3,830 reviews for this product over the span of 2,741 days, an average of 1.4 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 7 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 9 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 77 reviews were created on just 9 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 4.9 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.
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
Never-Verified Reviewers
14 of the 3,830 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. The Never-Verified Reviewers have rated this product an average of 3.9 while the reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review 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.
Take-Back Reviewers
1,618 of the 3,830 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.
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:
64 reviews
(4.9/5)
(4.9/5)
41 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
Common Phrases in Titles:
37 reviews
(4.8/5)
(4.8/5)
103 of the 3,830 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.9 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases 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.
Warn Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 152 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.6. 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:
- 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.
- We have no information on reviews that were never published in the first place.
- 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.
Warn Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
1,456 of the 3,830 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Warn Word Count Comparison
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- 32%
- 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 1,224 reviews (or 32%) are within an overrepresented word count group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented word count groups than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between reviews with overrepresented word groups and all other reviews isn’t significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 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 1261 reviewers (or 33%) 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.
Pass Unverified Purchases
69 of the 3,830 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.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
13% also reviewed:
BAOFENG BF-F8HP (UV-5R 3rd Gen) 8-Watt Dual Band... by BAOFENG
5% also reviewed:
Baofeng USB Programming Cable for Baofeng Two way... by BAOFENG
4% also reviewed:
BaoFeng UV-82HP High Power Dual Band Radio:... by BAOFENG
4% also reviewed:
Baofeng BF-S112 Two Way Radio Speaker,Black by BAOFENG
3% also reviewed:
Baofeng ExpertPower UV-5R Extended True Capacity... by ExpertPower
2% also reviewed:
Baofeng Programming Cable for BAOFENG... by BAOFENG
2% also reviewed:
BAOFENG UV-82 VHF UHF FM Transceiver Dual Band... by BAOFENG
Does not include products
from the same brand
from the same brand
1,189 of the 3,830 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.
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 4.4, 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.
4.4 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
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.
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- 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.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.