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FairTax: The Truth: Answering the Critics
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From Neal Boortz
This report was last updated 10/15/2018.
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Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
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Report Card
Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Reviewer Ease
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Phrase Repetition
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
The only plan that will restore our country to what ... [Go to full review]
Nov 17, 2015
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)
Least Trusted Reviews
A great follow up with the standard no holds barred ... [Go to full review]
Mar 18, 2008
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
Never-Verified Reviewers
54 of the 263 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. While this is more Never-Verified Reviewers than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Take-Back Reviewers
27 of the 263 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.
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 4.3. 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.
4.5 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Warn Rating Trend
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- 20%
- Created over 13 days
We counted 263 reviews for this product over the span of 3,657 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 13 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 52 reviews were created on just 13 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
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 Reviews:
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4 reviews
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4 reviews
(5.0/5)
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12 reviews
(4.3/5)
(4.3/5)
12 reviews
(4.8/5)
(4.8/5)
14 reviews
(4.1/5)
(4.1/5)
3 reviews
(5.0/5)
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3 reviews
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8 reviews
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7 reviews
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12 reviews
(4.7/5)
(4.7/5)
89 of the 263 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Pass Unverified Purchases
102 of the 263 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 Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
7% also reviewed:
The Sign of the Four (Sherlock Holmes Book 2) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5% also reviewed:
Journey Into Fear by Brand: Amereon Limited
5% also reviewed:
Earth in Upheaval by Immanuel Velikovsky
5% also reviewed:
WEIJI Adhesive Bra, Invisible Strapless Push-up... by WEIJI
5% also reviewed:
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
4% also reviewed:
The Complete Illustrated Sherlock Holmes... by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
57 of the 263 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 Participation
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- 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.
Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
1 of the 263 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.
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- 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.
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
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- 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:
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.