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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005
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From Ricks, Thomas
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Last Updated: Apr 20, 2018
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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
As a Vietnam veteran, this book is worth reading. That ... [Go to full review]
Oct 17, 2006
100%
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- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (8 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 2.8)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.3)
Least Trusted Reviews
We couldn't find any low-quality reviewsAnalysis Details
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
61 of the 441 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.
Never-Verified Reviewers
103 of the 441 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
56 of the 441 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.
Warn Rating Trend
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- 27%
- Created over 27 days
We counted 441 reviews for this product over the span of 4,260 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 27 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 120 reviews were created on just 27 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Unverified Purchases
271 of the 441 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.
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.
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149 of the 441 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 56%
- 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 247 reviewers (or 56%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
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:
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5% also reviewed:
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5% also reviewed:
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's... by Knopf
5% also reviewed:
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
5% also reviewed:
Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
5% also reviewed:
The Kite Runner by Riverhead Books
5% also reviewed:
1776 by David McCullough
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from the same brand
from the same brand
106 of the 441 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 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 4.2, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.
4.2 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
38 of the 441 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.