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 4.3. 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.

• 1
• Review has been deleted

We discovered a total of 1 deleted Review for this product, with an average rating of 3. 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.

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• 45%
• Created over 9 days

We counted 260 reviews for this product over the span of 546 days, an average of 0.5 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 9 days exceeding this threshold:

• 29 Reviews on Oct 5, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.5)
• 17 Reviews on Oct 6, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.6)
• 15 Reviews on Oct 15, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.4)
• 12 Reviews on Oct 7, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.3)
• 11 Reviews on Oct 9, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.6)
• 10 Reviews on Oct 11, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.9)
• 9 Reviews on Oct 8, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.7)
• 8 Reviews on Oct 13, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.4)
• 5 Reviews on Oct 10, 2015 (Avg. rating: 4.4)
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In total, we found that 116 reviews were created on just 9 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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• 5%
• Admitted to receiving an incentive

13 of the 260 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 Repeaters

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• 70%
• Reviewed other products from this brand

181 of the 260 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Repeaters and non-repeaters isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

Brand Loyalists

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• 3%
• Reviewed mostly products from this brand

7 of the 260 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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• 7%
• have previously deleted reviews

19 of the 260 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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• 31%
• Used substantial repetitive phrases

80 of the 260 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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• 58%
• Substantial overlapping review history

152 of the 260 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. While this is more than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between these reviewers and reviewers who have a more unique product review history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

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• 29%
• Unverified Purchases

75 of the 260 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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• 13%
• 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:

• Reviewers with 1-5 Reviews: 12.7% (Avg. rating: 4.4)

In total, we found that 33 reviewers (or 13%) 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.

Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.