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Franklin: A Life of Genius | The True Story of Benjamin Franklin (Short Reads Historical...
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Amazon Reviews for  Franklin: A Life of Genius | The True Story of Benjamin Franklin (Short Reads Historical Biographies of Famous People)
Rating:
46 Ratings
46 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
87% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Deleted Reviews
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Reviewer Ease
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Incentivized Reviews
WARN Brand Repeats
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Overlapping Review History
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Reviewer Participation

Most Trusted Reviews

Its such a fantastic read. Its a brilliant way to ... [Go to full review]
Apr 14, 2016      
70% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Take-Back Reviewer (393 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.9)
  • Brand Repeater (5 of 429 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.8)


Least Trusted Reviews

I mostly read fiction books and so wasn't sure if ... [Go to full review]
Apr 27, 2016      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Admitted to receiving an incentive
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Never-Verified Reviewer
  • Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Brand Monogamist (5 of 5 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.0)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.0)


Analysis Details

Fail Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 3 deleted Reviews 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


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Fail Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers


38 of the 46 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.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.6
4.3


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

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 4.7, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3. 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.

4.7 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.7
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Warn Unverified Purchases

39 of the 46 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. This is an excessively large percentage of unverified purchases and it may indicate unnatural reviews.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.5
4.9


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 Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.


28 of the 46 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is an excessively large percentage of incentivized reviews which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from incentivized reviews

from non-incentivized reviews


4.5
4.6


Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.

Warn Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


27 of the 46 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


4.7
4.4


Brand Loyalists


1 of the 46 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, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from Brand Loyalists

from Non-Loyalists


4.0
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:
3 reviews
4 reviews
2 reviews
2 reviews
2 reviews
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33 of the 46 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.5
4.7


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

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

Does not include products
from the same brand


29 of the 46 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.

from reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.6
4.6


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Rating Trend

  • 0%
  • Created on high-volume days
We counted 46 reviews for this product over the span of 88 days, an average of 0.5 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. We didn't find any days exceeding this threshold.
Read more about our Rating Trend 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 Reviewer Participation

  • 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.