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X-ACTO Pencil Sharpener | Powerhouse Electric Pencil Sharpener, With Pencil Saver, SafeStart Motor,...
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This report was last updated 4/3/2021.
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 63 Ratings, we counted 29 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
Pass Overall Grade
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Word Count Comparison
WARN Overlapping Review History
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Phrase Repetition
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Gets the job done but I want a sharper pencil. [Go to full review]
Jan 31, 2021
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (3 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.3)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.2)
Least Trusted Reviews
Very smooth sharpening action. Great auto-stop that prevents over-sharpening. It’s ... [Go to full review]
Jul 27, 2020
43%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Overrepresented word count (70 words)
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)
Analysis Details
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
22 of the 29 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.
Warn Rating Trend
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- 10%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 29 reviews for this product over the span of 198 days, an average of 0.1 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 2 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 3 reviews were created on just 1 day. Although any days with a larger number of reviews than expected is suspicious, the discrepancy in ratings from reviews created on these high volume days and reviews created on other days isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Word Count Comparison
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- 31%
- 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 9 reviews (or 31%) are within an overrepresented word count group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented word count groups than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between reviews with overrepresented word groups and all other reviews isn’t significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Overlapping Review History
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15 of the 29 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. While this is more than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Pass Unverified Purchases
1 of the 29 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 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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2 reviews
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2 reviews
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2 reviews
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Common Phrases in Titles:
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
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4 of the 29 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass Reviewer Participation
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- 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.
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
Read more about our Reviewer Ease 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.
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- 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.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
Pass Deleted Reviews
- 0
- Reviews have been deleted
We have not discovered any deleted reviews for this product.
There are a few limitations to keep in mind regarding the Deleted Reviews test:
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.