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The Iron Horse (Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck)
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Amazon Reviews for  The Iron Horse (Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck)
Rating:
83 Ratings
83 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
36% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Reviewer Ease
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Brand Repeats
WARN Phrase Repetition
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Suspicious Reviewers
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

Book is in good condition and everything is ok [Go to full review]
Jan 7, 2016      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.4)


Least Trusted Reviews

another good read [Go to full review]
Dec 15, 2016      
32% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Brand Repeater (2 of 10 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.7)


Analysis Details

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 4.4. 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.

4.5 Product's Average Ease Score

4.4 Category's Average Ease Score


4.5
4.4


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Warn Rating Trend

  • 7%
  • Created over 3 days

We counted 83 reviews for this product over the span of 3,518 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 3 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 6 reviews were created on just 3 days. 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.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.8
4.7


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


23 of the 83 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Repeaters and non-repeaters isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


4.8
4.6


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

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 Titles:
2 reviews
2 reviews
2 reviews
2 reviews
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16 of the 83 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.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.8
4.6


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

11 of the 83 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


4.5
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.

Pass Word Count Comparison

  • 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.

Pass Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders

We didn't detect a substantial amount of One Hit Wonders.

Never-Verified Reviewers


4 of the 83 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from never-verified reviewers

from reviewers with at least one verified purchase review


4.3
4.7


Take-Back Reviewers

We didn't detect a substantial amount of Take-Back Reviewers.

Single-Day Reviewers


6 of the 83 reviewers have written multiple reviews but posted all of them on a single day. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from single-day reviewers

from non-single-day reviewers


4.7
4.7


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

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

Does not include products
from the same brand


34 of the 83 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


4.7
4.6


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Reviewer Participation

  • 16%
  • 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 13 reviewers (or 16%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.9
4.6


Read more about our Reviewer Participation 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.

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:
  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.