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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
More product info From Winchester, Simon

Amazon Reviews for  Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Rating:
424 Ratings
424 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
36% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Deleted Reviews
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Overlapping Review History
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

This is a great book. It covers an extremely wide ... [Go to full review]
Dec 18, 2017      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.7)


Least Trusted Reviews

I have read two other books by Simon Winchester, and ... [Go to full review]
Dec 12, 2007      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • One-Hit Wonder
  • Never-Verified Reviewer
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 1 Review)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.0)


Analysis Details

Fail Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 28 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 3.4. 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.

3.4 average rating of deleted reviews

3.4


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Fail Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


43 of the 424 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


3.7
4.0


Take-Back Reviewers


53 of the 424 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


4.1
4.0


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

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

9% also reviewed:
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Does not include products
from the same brand


109 of the 424 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.2 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 3.9. 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 reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.2
3.9


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Warn Unverified Purchases

237 of the 424 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. While this is a higher percentage of unverified purchases than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


3.9
4.2


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 Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.



108 of the 424 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


4.2
3.9


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 49%
  • From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

We see the following 2 participation groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 208 reviewers (or 50%) are within an overrepresented participation group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented participation groups than we'd expect to see, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


3.9
4.1


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Rating Trend

  • 1%
  • Created over 2 days

We counted 424 reviews for this product over the span of 5,488 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 2 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 6 reviews were created on just 2 days. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


3.8
4.0


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 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 4.1, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.2.

4.1 Product's Average Ease Score

4.2 Category's Average Ease Score


4.1
4.2


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


17 of the 424 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.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


4.2
4.0


Read more about our Brand Repeats 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.