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Scented Candles Set of 3: 3 x 4-Ounce Soy Candles
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Amazon Reviews for  Scented Candles Set of 3: 3 x 4-Ounce Soy Candles
Rating:
1,702 Ratings
2,304 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
37% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Mar 12, 2020
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 1,702 Ratings, we counted 2,304 Reviews available on their site.
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 Incentivized Reviews
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Word Count Comparison
FAIL Phrase Repetition
FAIL Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats

Most Trusted Reviews

5/5
Beautiful packaging perfect gift idea [Go to full review]
Mar 7, 2018      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (7 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Brand Repeater (2 of 59 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.5)


Least Trusted Reviews

These candles smell amazing. They are inspired by fifty shades ... [Go to full review]
May 18, 2015      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Admitted to receiving an incentive
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Never-Verified Reviewer
  • Take-Back Reviewer (667 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.8)
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 4 of 9 top products
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.9)


Analysis Details

Fail Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 199 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 3.8. 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:
  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.

3.8 average rating of deleted reviews

3.8


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Fail Rating Trend

  • 33%
  • Created over 69 days

We counted 2,304 reviews for this product over the span of 1,974 days, an average of 1.2 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 69 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 765 reviews were created on just 69 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 4.1. 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


4.8
4.1


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Fail Unverified Purchases

1,146 of the 2,304 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.8 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 3.9. 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


4.8
3.9


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


513 of the 2,304 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. Incentivized reviews have rated this product an average of 4.8 while reviews that were not incentivized rated this product an average of 4.2. 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 incentivized reviews

from non-incentivized reviews


4.8
4.2


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

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

Never-Verified Reviewers


104 of the 2,304 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. The Never-Verified Reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.9 while the reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review rated this product an average of 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.

from never-verified reviewers

from reviewers with at least one verified purchase review


4.9
4.3


Take-Back Reviewers


1,330 of the 2,304 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. The Take-Back Reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.6 while the reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history 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 take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.6
4.1


Single-Day Reviewers


19 of the 2,304 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 3.7 while all other reviewers 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.

from single-day reviewers

from non-single-day reviewers


3.7
4.4


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Fail Word Count Comparison

  • 18%
  • 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 410 reviews (or 18%) 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 4.3. 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.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.7
4.3


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Fail 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:
147 reviews
(4.9/5)
23 reviews
(4.9/5)
203 reviews
(4.6/5)
92 reviews
(4.9/5)
67 reviews
(4.8/5)
32 reviews
(4.9/5)
22 reviews
(4.8/5)
90 reviews
(4.7/5)
52 reviews
(4.9/5)
40 reviews
(4.8/5)
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Common Phrases in Titles:
98 reviews
(4.6/5)
28 reviews
(4.9/5)
35 reviews
(4.8/5)
18 reviews
(4.8/5)
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412 of the 2,304 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.8 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 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.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.8
4.3


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

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



447 of the 2,304 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.9 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 4.2. 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 reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.9
4.2


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Reviewer Participation

  • 0%
  • From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We didn't find any participation groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Reviewer Participation 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 4.3. 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.


Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


45 of the 2,304 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


4.8
4.4


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.