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Muscletech Myobuild BCAA Amino Acids Supplement, Muscle Building and Recovery Formula with Betaine...
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 1,384 Ratings, we counted 618 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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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Deleted Reviews
FAIL Rating Trend
FAIL Unverified Purchases
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Reviewer Ease
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Phrase Repetition
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Tastes like Kool-aid and makes ME want to crash through ... [Go to full review]
Jun 2, 2020
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (8 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.1)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 3 of 9 top products
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.2)
Least Trusted Reviews
Easily one of the best Amino/BCAA products I've used. Was ... [Go to full review]
Feb 19, 2016
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Never-Verified Reviewer
- Single-Day Reviewer (posted all reviews on Feb 19, 2016)
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 130 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.8. 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.
Fail Rating Trend
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- 8%
- Created over 6 days
We counted 618 reviews for this product over the span of 1,723 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 6 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 49 reviews were created on just 6 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 4.8 while reviews from other days 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.
Fail Unverified Purchases
139 of the 618 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.7 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 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.
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.
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
Never-Verified Reviewers
45 of the 618 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. The Never-Verified Reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.8 while the reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review 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.
Take-Back Reviewers
272 of the 618 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.
Single-Day Reviewers
36 of the 618 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 4.5. 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.
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 4.4, 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.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 31%
- 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 191 reviewers (or 31%) 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 Word Count Comparison
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- 28%
- 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 175 reviews (or 28%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
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:
25 reviews
(4.6/5)
(4.6/5)
16 reviews
(4.7/5)
(4.7/5)
16 reviews
(4.6/5)
(4.6/5)
11 of the 618 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.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
3% also reviewed:
Scivation Xtend Bcaa Powder, 7g bcaas, Branched... by Scivation
3% also reviewed:
Whey Protein Powder | Six Star Whey Protein Plus... by Six Star
3% also reviewed:
Testosterone Booster for Men | Six Star Pro... by Six Star
2% also reviewed:
Xenadrine NextGen, Powerful Weight Loss, Energy... by Xenadrine
2% also reviewed:
Optimum Nutrition Micronized Creatine Monohydrate... by Optimum Nutrition
1% also reviewed:
MuscleTech Essential Series Platinum Amino Plus... by
83 of the 618 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 Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.
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.
1 of the 618 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. 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 Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.