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 4.6, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.4. 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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• 24%
• Used substantial repetitive phrases

82 of the 341 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 4.7. 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.

Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

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• 88%
• 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: 22.9% (Avg. rating: 4.9)
• Reviewers with 6-15 Reviews: 64.8% (Avg. rating: 4.8)

In total, we found that 299 reviewers (or 88%) are within an overrepresented participation group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.8, while all other reviews 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.

Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

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• 37%
• Created over 14 days

We counted 341 reviews for this product over the span of 935 days, an average of 0.4 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 14 days exceeding this threshold:

• 23 Reviews on Jan 5, 2015 (Avg. rating: 5.0)
• 13 Reviews on Feb 20, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.9)
• 13 Reviews on Jan 6, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.7)
• 11 Reviews on Jan 10, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.9)
• 11 Reviews on Jan 7, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.8)
• 9 Reviews on Jan 9, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.9)
• 7 Reviews on Jan 14, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.9)
• 7 Reviews on Jan 12, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.7)
• 7 Reviews on Jan 13, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.7)
• 6 Reviews on Jan 21, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.3)
• 5 Reviews on Mar 10, 2015 (Avg. rating: 5.0)
• 5 Reviews on Jan 8, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.8)
• 5 Reviews on Jan 22, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.8)
• 5 Reviews on Jan 11, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.6)
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In total, we found that 127 reviews were created on just 14 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

Read more about our Rating Trend test.

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• 67%
• Unverified Purchases

230 of the 341 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. While this is a higher percentage of unverified purchases than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the unverified purchases and verified purchases isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

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.

Never-Verified Reviewers

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• 24%
• have zero verified purchases

82 of the 341 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

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• 0%
• have previously deleted reviews

1 of the 341 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.

Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers 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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• 50%
• Substantial overlapping review history

170 of the 341 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

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• 13%
• Reviewed other products from this brand

44 of the 341 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.

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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.

• 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.