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A Little Life: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015 (Picador Collection)
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From Hanya Yanagihara
This report was last updated 1/16/2021.
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Note: While Amazon.co.uk claims 8,271 Ratings, we counted 1,237 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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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Phrase Repetition
FAIL Reviewer Participation
WARN Deleted Reviews
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Suspicious Reviewers
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
I agree with the 5* reviews, and also the 1* ... [Go to full review]
Sep 21, 2020
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.3)
Least Trusted Reviews
Characters so vividly drawn I will genuinely miss them. A ... [Go to full review]
Apr 13, 2019
18%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 4 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
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 Reviews:
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32 reviews
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(4.9/5)
21 reviews
(4.5/5)
(4.5/5)
58 reviews
(3.2/5)
(3.2/5)
17 reviews
(4.8/5)
(4.8/5)
27 reviews
(4.6/5)
(4.6/5)
17 reviews
(4.9/5)
(4.9/5)
28 reviews
(3.4/5)
(3.4/5)
10 reviews
(4.8/5)
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13 reviews
(4.3/5)
(4.3/5)
11 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
71 of the 1,237 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.8 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 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.
Fail Reviewer Participation
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- 32%
- 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 392 reviewers (or 32%) are within an overrepresented participation group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.3, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 4.0. 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 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:
- 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.
Pass Rating Trend
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- 3%
- Created over 6 days
We counted 1,237 reviews for this product over the span of 2,087 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 4 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 6 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 32 reviews were created on just 6 days. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass Unverified Purchases
291 of the 1,237 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 Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
106 of the 1,237 reviewers have only reviewed this product. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Never-Verified Reviewers
101 of the 1,237 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.
Take-Back Reviewers
108 of the 1,237 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Single-Day Reviewers
12 of the 1,237 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.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
6% also reviewed:
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5% also reviewed:
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
5% also reviewed:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
3% also reviewed:
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
3% also reviewed:
I Am Pilgrim: The bestselling Richard & Judy... by Terry Hayes
3% also reviewed:
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
3% also reviewed:
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
3% also reviewed:
Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
3% also reviewed:
Behind Closed Doors: The gripping psychological... by B A Paris
222 of the 1,237 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 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 4.2, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.
4.2 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
1 of the 1,237 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.
2 of the 1,237 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.