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Boost Simply Complete Nutritional Drink, Vanilla Bean, 24 Count
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Amazon Reviews for  Boost Simply Complete Nutritional Drink, Vanilla Bean, 24 Count
Rating:
624 Ratings
571 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
88% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Oct 26, 2016
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 624 Ratings, we counted 571 Reviews available on their site.
Note: While we've examined all 571 reviews, our reviewer analysis is based on a sample of 126 reviewers.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

Report Card

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

Most Trusted Reviews

My boyfriend and I like these as a light snack ... [Go to full review]
Aug 2, 2016      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (285 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.3)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.2)


Least Trusted Reviews

Tastes great. Doesn't leave you with a bad taste in ... [Go to full review]
Aug 4, 2016      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Overrepresented word count (77 words)
  • Admitted to receiving an incentive
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 1.0)
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 25 Reviews)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.7)


Analysis Details

Warn Rating Trend

  • 34%
  • Created over 7 days

We counted 571 reviews for this product over the span of 111 days, an average of 5.1 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 14 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 7 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 194 reviews were created on just 7 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.1
4.1


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn Unverified Purchases

557 of the 571 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. This is an excessively large percentage of unverified purchases and it may indicate unnatural reviews.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.1
4.4


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 Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.


180 of the 571 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is an excessively large percentage of incentivized reviews which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from incentivized reviews

from non-incentivized reviews


4.1
4.1


Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.

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


4.4
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Warn Word Count Comparison

  • 60%
  • 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 2 groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 343 reviews (or 60%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is an excessively high number of reviews in overrepresented word count groups.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.1
4.2


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Warn Phrase Repetition


353 of the 571 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.1
4.1


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 45%
  • 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:In total, we found that 57 reviewers (or 45%) 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


4.1
4.1


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


6 of a random sample of 126 reviewers have only reviewed this product. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from one-hit wonders

from reviewers with more than one review


4.5
4.1


Never-Verified Reviewers


17 of a random sample of 126 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from never-verified reviewers

from reviewers with at least one verified purchase review


4.2
4.1


Take-Back Reviewers

We didn't detect a substantial amount of Take-Back Reviewers.

Single-Day Reviewers


1 of a random sample of 126 reviewers have written multiple reviews but posted all of them on a single day. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from single-day reviewers

from non-single-day reviewers


5.0
4.1


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

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

Does not include products
from the same brand


11 of a random sample of 126 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


4.4
4.1


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters

We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.

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.