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Fire TV with 4K Ultra HD and 1st Gen Alexa Voice Remote, streaming media player
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 32,288 Ratings, we counted 26,014 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".
Report Card
Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Rating Trend
FAIL Unverified Purchases
FAIL Incentivized Reviews
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Word Count Comparison
FAIL Phrase Repetition
FAIL Overlapping Review History
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Brand Repeats
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Reviewer Ease
Most Trusted Reviews
It keeps saying that it needs plugged into the cable ... [Go to full review]
Nov 23, 2017
59%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Brand Repeater (2 of 11 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 1.0)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 11 Reviews)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 2.7)
Least Trusted Reviews
Too slow. Worse than the fire stick. I'm returning it ... [Go to full review]
Nov 16, 2017
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Overrepresented word count (15 words)
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- One-Hit Wonder
- Never-Verified Reviewer
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 1 Review)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 1.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Rating Trend
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- 72%
- Created over 180 days
We counted 26,014 reviews for this product over the span of 1,130 days, an average of 23.0 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 41 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 180 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 18,650 reviews were created on just 180 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 4.1 while reviews from other days have rated this product an average of 3.8. 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
778 of the 26,014 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 3.3 while the verified purchasers 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.
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.
3 of the 26,014 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 1.3 while reviews that were not incentivized 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.
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
117 of the 26,014 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. The Never-Verified Reviewers have rated this product an average of 3.3 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.
Take-Back Reviewers
7,735 of the 26,014 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.
Single-Day Reviewers
264 of the 26,014 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 4.2 while all other reviewers rated this product an average of 4.0. 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 Word Count Comparison
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- 51%
- 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 13,298 reviews (or 51%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.5, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 3.6. 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 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:
417 reviews
(3.5/5)
(3.5/5)
553 reviews
(4.8/5)
(4.8/5)
341 reviews
(3.4/5)
(3.4/5)
Common Phrases in Titles:
549 reviews
(3.8/5)
(3.8/5)
705 of the 26,014 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.5 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.0. 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 Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
2% also reviewed:
Certified Refurbished Fire TV Stick with Alexa... by Amazon Renewed
2% also reviewed:
Firefox for Fire TV by Mozilla
2% also reviewed:
Amazon Store Card by Synchrony Bank
1% also reviewed:
Pluto TV - It’s Free TV by Pluto TV
1% also reviewed:
The Man In The High Castle - Season 1 (4K UHD) by Alexa Davalos
1% also reviewed:
ES File Explorer File Manager by ES Mobile
1% also reviewed:
Downloader by AFTVnews.com
1% also reviewed:
Tubi - Watch Free Movies & TV Shows by Tubi, Inc
1% also reviewed:
Amazon Prime Video by Amazon.com
2,795 of the 26,014 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.3 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 4.0. 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 Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 333 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.4. 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.
Warn Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
7,506 of the 26,014 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Repeaters and non-repeaters isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 65%
- 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 16874 reviewers (or 65%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
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 4.2, 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
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.