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Hardwired...To Self-Destruct (Deluxe)
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Amazon Reviews for  Hardwired...To Self-Destruct (Deluxe)
Rating:
1,112 Ratings
1,121 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
52% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Mar 18, 2019
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 1,112 Ratings, we counted 1,121 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

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Report Card

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

Most Trusted Reviews

5/5
Yep, its still there. Rips your lips off, then leaves ... [Go to full review]
May 18, 2017      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (6 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.2)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.8)


Least Trusted Reviews

5/5
After it was announced that they were making a new ... [Go to full review]
Nov 21, 2016      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Brand Monogamist (353 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.6)
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 21 Reviews)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.2)


Analysis Details

Fail Unverified Purchases

243 of the 1,121 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.0 while the verified purchasers have 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.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.0
4.7


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 Brand Repeats

Brand Monogamists


52 of the 1,121 reviewers have reviewed multiple products, but only for this brand. This is an excessively large percentage of Brand Monogamists which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from Brand Monogamists

from Non-Monogamists


4.5
4.6


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


186 of the 1,121 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


4.6
4.6


Take-Back Reviewers


333 of the 1,121 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. This is an excessively large percentage of Take-Back Reviewers which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.6
4.6


Single-Day Reviewers


30 of the 1,121 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 4.9 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.

from single-day reviewers

from non-single-day reviewers


4.9
4.5


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Fail Word Count Comparison

  • 29%
  • 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 321 reviews (or 29%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.7, while all other reviews 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.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.7
4.5


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Warn Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 37 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.5. 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.

4.5 average rating of deleted reviews

4.5


Show distribution of deleted reviews

Warn Rating Trend

  • 54%
  • Created over 44 days

We counted 1,121 reviews for this product over the span of 842 days, an average of 1.3 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 6 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 44 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 606 reviews were created on just 44 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


4.5
4.6


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn 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:
75 reviews
(4.5/5)
37 reviews
(4.5/5)
37 reviews
(4.4/5)
28 reviews
(4.5/5)
29 reviews
(4.3/5)
45 reviews
(4.5/5)
14 reviews
(4.6/5)
59 reviews
(4.0/5)
46 reviews
(4.2/5)
13 reviews
(4.4/5)
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105 of the 1,121 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


4.4
4.6


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 58%
  • 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 649 reviewers (or 58%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.6
4.6


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

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

4% also reviewed:
Dystopia by UMe/T-Boy Records

4% also reviewed:
Death Magnetic by Rhino Blackened

3% also reviewed:
St. Anger by Blackened Recordings

2% also reviewed:
Beyond Magnetic by 13STAR RECORDS

2% also reviewed:
Metallica by Metallica

2% also reviewed:
Kill 'em All (Vinyl) by Metallica

Does not include products
from the same brand


148 of the 1,121 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


4.5
4.6


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass 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 4.4.

4.4 Product's Average Ease Score

4.4 Category's Average Ease Score


4.4
4.4


Read more about our Reviewer Ease 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.