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Vitamin C Skin Serum for Face 30% Anti Aging Facial Serum With Vitamin E & Hyaluronic Acid, for...
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Amazon Reviews for  Vitamin C Skin Serum for Face 30% Anti Aging Facial Serum With Vitamin E & Hyaluronic Acid, for Wrinkles, Age Spots, Acne, Firming and Skin Tone, 1 fl oz
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141 Ratings
141 Reviews
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87% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Deleted Reviews
FAIL Rating Trend
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Reviewer Ease
FAIL Overlapping Review History
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

5/5
I’ve been only using it for a few days so ... [Go to full review]
Feb 4, 2018      
100% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Overrepresented word count (48 words)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.8)


Least Trusted Reviews

I'm using five PurOrganica facial products (Vit C Serum, Retinol ... [Go to full review]
Nov 22, 2017      
0% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Overrepresented word count (41 words)
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Single-Day Reviewer (posted all reviews on Nov 22, 2017)
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 2 Reviews)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)


Analysis Details

Fail Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 18 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 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.

5.0 average rating of deleted reviews

5.0


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Fail Rating Trend

  • 70%
  • Created over 5 days

We counted 141 reviews for this product over the span of 112 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 5 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 99 reviews were created on just 5 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 4.9 while reviews from other days have rated this product an average of 3.4. 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 reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.9
3.4


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


33 of the 141 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


4.5
4.5


Take-Back Reviewers


3 of the 141 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.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


3.3
4.5


Single-Day Reviewers


58 of the 141 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 4.7 while all other reviewers 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 single-day reviewers

from non-single-day reviewers


4.7
4.3


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Fail 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 4.5, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 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.

4.5 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.5
4.3


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



87 of the 141 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 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 reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.9
3.9


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Warn Phrase Repetition


20 of the 141 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


4.8
4.4


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 86%
  • 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 121 reviewers (or 86%) 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
4.0


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

9 of the 141 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


3.8
4.5


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.

Pass Word Count Comparison

  • 24%
  • 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 34 reviews (or 24%) 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.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.4
4.5


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

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.

  • 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.