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Last Updated: Jul 19, 2017
Note: While Bodybuilding.com claims 19 Ratings, we counted 16 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".
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Brand Repeats
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Overlapping Review History
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Sample Reviews
WARN Word Count Comparison
PASS Phrase Repetition
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Deleted Reviews
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very interesting choc flavor almost on the dark cho side ... [Go to full review]
Jan 27, 2015 1 of 1 found this helpful.
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- Unverified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Overrepresented word count (47 words)
- Never-Verified Reviewer
- Single-Day Reviewer (posted all reviews on Jan 27, 2015)
- Brand Monogamist (5 of 5 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 10.0)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 10.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Brand Repeats
Brand Loyalists
10 of the 16 reviewers have reviewed multiple products but half or more of their reviews are for this brand. This is an excessively large percentage of Brand Loyalists which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Brand Monogamists
9 of the 16 reviewers have reviewed multiple products, but only for this brand. This is an excessively large percentage of Brand Monogamists which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
2 of the 16 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.
Never-Verified Reviewers
12 of the 16 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. The Never-Verified Reviewers have rated this product an average of 9.4 while the reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review rated this product an average of 8.3. 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.
Take-Back Reviewers
2 of the 16 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 7.0 while the reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history have rated this product an average of 9.4. 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.
Single-Day Reviewers
9 of the 16 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 9.7 while all other reviewers rated this product an average of 8.4. 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.
Fail Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
19% also reviewed:
Trutein by Body Nutrition
19% also reviewed:
BCAA + G Reload by MRM
13% also reviewed:
100% All Natural Whey by MRM
13% also reviewed:
COR-Performance Whey by Cellucor
13% also reviewed:
Total Protein by Cutler Nutrition
13% also reviewed:
Select Protein by PEScience
4 of the 16 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 7.8 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 9.6. 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.
Warn Rating Trend
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- 38%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 16 reviews for this product over the span of 800 days, an average of 0.0 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 1 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 6 reviews were created on just 1 day. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Unverified Purchases
14 of the 16 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. This is an excessively large percentage of unverified purchases and it may indicate 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.
Warn Sample Reviews
1 of the 16 total reviews for this product mentioned the word "sample" within their review. This is more than we would expect see; the presences of any reviews that mention the word "sample" indicates that there may be more, since not all reviewers will disclose that they used a sample within their review.
Warn Word Count Comparison
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- 50%
- 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 8 reviews (or 50%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is an excessively high number of reviews in overrepresented word count groups.
Pass Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
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- 0%
- Used substantial repetitive phrases
0 of the 16 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.
Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.
Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.
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 9.1, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 8.8. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.
9.1 Product's Average Ease Score
8.8 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
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.