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The Heap: A Novel
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This report was last updated 9/4/2021.
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 110 Ratings, we counted 31 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".
Report Card
Pass Overall Grade
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Incentivized Reviews
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Phrase Repetition
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Strong sense of world-building, however plot slightly depletes. Character development ... [Go to full review]
Feb 8, 2020
100%
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TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 1.3)
Least Trusted Reviews
The Heap by Sean Adams is recalls the type of ... [Go to full review]
Feb 4, 2020
12%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 4.0)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 2 of 9 top products
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.8)
Analysis Details
Warn Rating Trend
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- 10%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 31 reviews for this product over the span of 448 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 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 3 reviews were created on just 1 day. 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.
Warn Unverified Purchases
16 of the 31 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. While this is a higher percentage of unverified purchases than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the unverified purchases and verified purchases isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
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.
2 of the 31 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. While we could not find a statistically significant difference between the average rating of incentivized reviews and non-incentivized reviews, the presences of at least one incentivized review indicates that there may be more, since not all reviewers will disclose that they had received an incentive to post a 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.
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
13 of the 31 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. While this is more Take-Back Reviewers than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Warn Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
8 of the 31 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
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:
23% also reviewed:
Manhattan Beach: A Novel by Jennifer Egan
19% also reviewed:
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist,... by Lori Gottlieb
16% also reviewed:
The Woman in the Window: A Novel by A. J Finn
16% also reviewed:
Early Riser: A Novel by Jasper Fforde
16% also reviewed:
The Mars Room: A Novel by Rachel Kushner
16% also reviewed:
Normal People: A Novel by Sally Rooney
16% also reviewed:
Lake Success: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart
16% also reviewed:
The Warehouse: A Novel by Rob Hart
13% also reviewed:
A Man Called Ove: A Novel by Fredrik Backman
14 of the 31 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 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
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.
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.