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Apple iPod classic 120 GB Black 7th Generation
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Amazon Reviews for  Apple iPod classic 120 GB Black 7th Generation
Rating:
719 Ratings
750 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
18% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: May 21, 2020
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 719 Ratings, we counted 750 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

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Pass Overall Grade
FAIL Rating Trend
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Reviewer Ease
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Phrase Repetition
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

2/5
Could not upload my music to iPod. [Go to full review]
Jan 30, 2018      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Brand Repeater (3 of 12 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 3.0)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.2)


Least Trusted Reviews

I have really enjoyed having this ipod. It can fit ... [Go to full review]
Jan 19, 2009      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 7 Reviews)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.9)


Analysis Details

Fail Rating Trend

  • 9%
  • Created over 10 days

We counted 750 reviews for this product over the span of 4,232 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 3 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 10 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 66 reviews were created on just 10 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 4.5 while reviews from other days have rated this product an average of 4.1. 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.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.5
4.1


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


99 of the 750 reviewers have only reviewed this product. While this is more One-Hit Wonders than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from one-hit wonders

from reviewers with more than one review


3.9
4.2


Never-Verified Reviewers


110 of the 750 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. The Never-Verified Reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.4 while the reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review rated this product an average of 4.1. 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.

from never-verified reviewers

from reviewers with at least one verified purchase review


4.4
4.1


Take-Back Reviewers


190 of the 750 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.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.2
4.1


Single-Day Reviewers


18 of the 750 reviewers have written multiple reviews but posted all of them on a single day. The Single-Day reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.8 while all other reviewers rated this product an average of 4.1. 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.

from single-day reviewers

from non-single-day reviewers


4.8
4.1


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Warn 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 4.2, 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.

4.2 Product's Average Ease Score

4.1 Category's Average Ease Score


4.2
4.1


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 34%
  • 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 258 reviewers (or 34%) 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.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.0
4.2


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

238 of the 750 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.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.2
4.1


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 Word Count Comparison

  • 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.

Pass 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:
34 reviews
(4.2/5)
9 reviews
(3.6/5)
11 reviews
(4.6/5)
Common Phrases in Titles:
8 reviews
(4.8/5)
6 reviews
(4.2/5)


11 of the 750 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.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.6
4.1


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:

1% also reviewed:
Full Measure by Sony

1% also reviewed:
Mad Men: Season 4 by Lionsgate

Does not include products
from the same brand


33 of the 750 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.

from reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.3
4.1


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


69 of the 750 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.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


4.1
4.1


Read more about our Brand Repeats 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.

  • 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.

Pass Deleted Reviews
  • 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.