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Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 4,782 Ratings, we counted 1,529 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
Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Phrase Repetition
FAIL Overlapping Review History
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Brand Repeats
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Very entertaining. I was surprised that the audible version was ... [Go to full review]
Dec 8, 2018
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Brand Repeater (2 of 50 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.9)
Least Trusted Reviews
It was an okay read but not the same quality ... [Go to full review]
May 21, 2014
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 4.0)
- Brand Repeater (2 of 13 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 3.5)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 13 Reviews)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.5)
Analysis Details
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
601 of the 1,529 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. The Take-Back Reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.4 while the reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history have rated this product an average of 4.2. 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 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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49 reviews
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22 reviews
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22 reviews
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60 reviews
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22 reviews
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Common Phrases in Titles:
21 reviews
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195 of the 1,529 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.4 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.2. 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 Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
15% also reviewed:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
10% also reviewed:
Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
9% also reviewed:
Emma (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
7% also reviewed:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
5% also reviewed:
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
5% also reviewed:
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4% also reviewed:
Dracula by Bram Stoker
4% also reviewed:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Bibliobazaar... by Mark Twain
4% also reviewed:
Anne of Green Gables (Wordsworth... by Lucy Maud Montgomery
415 of the 1,529 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.4 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 4.2. 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 7 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.7. 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.
Warn Rating Trend
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- 5%
- Created over 13 days
We counted 1,529 reviews for this product over the span of 8,468 days, an average of 0.2 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 3 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 13 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 84 reviews were created on just 13 days. 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 Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
424 of the 1,529 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.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 30%
- 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 461 reviewers (or 30%) 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.
Pass Unverified Purchases
406 of the 1,529 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 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 4.3, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.2. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.
4.3 Product's Average Ease Score
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease 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.
6 of the 1,529 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.