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Kirkland Minoxidil 5% Extra Strength Hair Regrowth for Men (12 Month supply (economy size))
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 92 Ratings, we counted 51 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".
Report Card
Pass Overall Grade
FAIL
Unverified Purchases

WARN
Deleted Reviews

WARN
Suspicious Reviewers

WARN
Reviewer Ease

WARN
Word Count Comparison

PASS
Rating Trend

PASS
Phrase Repetition

PASS
Overlapping Review History

PASS
Reviewer Participation

PASS
Brand Repeats

PASS
Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
Somebody's gotta do something about people balding... glad there's research ... [Go to full review]
Jan 4, 2015
100%
TRUST
TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (53 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.3)
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Brand Repeater (2 of 168 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)
Least Trusted Reviews
UPDATE June 2013 -I just bought another year's supply. I ... [Go to full review]
Jul 28, 2013 13 of 13 found this helpful.
0%
TRUST
TRUST
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Unverified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (118 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.5)
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Brand Repeater (4 of 1634 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.5)
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Overlapping Review History: reviewed 8 of 9 top products
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)
Analysis Details
Fail
Unverified Purchases

2 of the 51 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 2.5 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.5. 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.
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.
Warn
Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 1 deleted Review for this product, with an average rating of 5. 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
Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers
19 of the 51 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.
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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 4.1. 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
4.1 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Warn
Word Count Comparison

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- 41%
- 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 21 reviews (or 41%) 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.
Pass
Rating Trend

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- 4%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 51 reviews for this product over the span of 2,743 days, an average of 0.0 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 1 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 2 reviews were created on just 1 day. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass
Phrase Repetition

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- 0%
- Used substantial repetitive phrases
0 of the 51 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.
Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.
Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.
Pass
Overlapping Review History

Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
8% also reviewed:
Aladdin Sane by Virgin / EMI
8% also reviewed:
One Night Only [Blu-ray] by VISUAL ENTERTAINMENT
6% also reviewed:
The Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits: The Record by Bee Gees
6% also reviewed:
In Search Of The Lost Chord by The Moody Blues
6% also reviewed:
Number Ones by Somerset Entertainment
6% also reviewed:
Bee Gees 1st by Bee Gees
6% also reviewed:
Ziggy Stardust: 30th Anniversary by EMI
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from the same brand
from the same brand
2 of the 51 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 Participation

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- 25%
- 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 13 reviewers (or 25%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass
Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters
7 of the 51 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.
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.