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Note: While Amazon.com claims 669 Ratings, we counted 265 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 Deleted Reviews
FAIL Reviewer Ease
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Perfect feeder! Many portion sizes available as well as feeding ... [Go to full review]
Jan 28, 2021
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.7)
Least Trusted Reviews
What a relief to know that when I’m away from ... [Go to full review]
May 15, 2020
0%
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TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Single-Day Reviewer (posted all reviews on May 15, 2020)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 2 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 46 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:
- 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.
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 4.3, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 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.
4.3 Product's Average Ease Score
4.1 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
76 of the 265 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.
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:
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7 reviews
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3 reviews
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28 reviews
(4.9/5)
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22 reviews
(4.7/5)
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15 reviews
(4.7/5)
(4.7/5)
3 reviews
(5.0/5)
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3 reviews
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9 reviews
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10 reviews
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2 reviews
(1.0/5)
(1.0/5)
49 of the 265 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. While this is more than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the these reviews and reviews without substantial repetitive phrases isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 35%
- 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 94 reviewers (or 35%) are within an overrepresented participation group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented participation groups than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between reviewers in an overrepresented participation groups and all other reviewers isn’t significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Pass Rating Trend
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- Created on high-volume days
We counted 265 reviews for this product over the span of 409 days, an average of 0.6 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 5 or fewer reviews on any given day. We didn't find any days exceeding this threshold.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Pass Unverified Purchases
8 of the 265 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.
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
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- 0%
- Have an overrepresented word count
We didn't find any review word count groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.
Pass Overlapping Review History
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19 of the 265 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.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
1 of the 265 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.
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.
1 of the 265 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.