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Angels & Demons
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Amazon Reviews for  Angels & Demons
Rating:
846 Ratings
846 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
100% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
Adjusted:
Insufficient trustworthy reviews



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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Unverified Purchases
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Phrase Repetition
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Brand Repeats
WARN Word Count Comparison
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

We couldn't find any quality reviews

Least Trusted Reviews

As a voracious reader, I have read the best. "Angels ... [Go to full review]
May 21, 2000      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Overrepresented word count (129 words)
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Never-Verified Reviewer
  • Single-Day Reviewer (posted all reviews on May 21, 2000)
  • Brand Monogamist (2 of 2 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 2 Reviews)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)


Analysis Details

Fail Unverified Purchases

815 of the 846 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.0 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.7. 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 unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.0
4.7


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 Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


182 of the 846 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


3.9
4.0


Never-Verified Reviewers


754 of the 846 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. This is an excessively large percentage of Never-Verified Reviewers which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from never-verified reviewers

from reviewers with at least one verified purchase review


4.0
4.3


Take-Back Reviewers


3 of the 846 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.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.7
4.0


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

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 Titles:
46 reviews
(4.0/5)
8 reviews
(5.0/5)
21 reviews
(3.8/5)
21 reviews
(4.6/5)
14 reviews
(4.1/5)
10 reviews
(4.5/5)
9 reviews
(4.4/5)
11 reviews
(4.2/5)
32 reviews
(3.9/5)
67 reviews
(3.9/5)
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405 of the 846 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.2 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases 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.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.2
3.8


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 1 deleted Review 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


Show distribution of deleted reviews

Warn Rating Trend

  • 39%
  • Created over 87 days

We counted 846 reviews for this product over the span of 6,757 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 87 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 333 reviews were created on just 87 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


3.9
4.0


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn Brand Repeats

Brand Loyalists


25 of the 846 reviewers have reviewed multiple products but half or more of their reviews are for this brand. While this is more Brand Loyalists than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Loyalists and non-loyalists isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

from Brand Loyalists

from Non-Loyalists


4.2
4.0


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

Warn Word Count Comparison

  • 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 2 groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 419 reviews (or 50%) are within an overrepresented word count group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented word count groups than we'd expect to see, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.0
4.0


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 48%
  • 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 407 reviewers (or 51%) 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


3.9
4.0


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

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

3% also reviewed:
The Gunslinger by Stephen King

2% also reviewed:
Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell

2% also reviewed:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

1% also reviewed:
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

1% also reviewed:
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Does not include products
from the same brand


74 of the 846 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.

from reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.2
4.0


Read more about our Overlapping Review History 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, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.

4.0 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.0
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


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.