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The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi...
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Amazon Reviews for  The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
Rating:
116 Ratings
116 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
15% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Pass Overall Grade
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Suspicious Reviewers
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

The author does a fantastic job of mixing historical facts ... [Go to full review]
Jul 18, 2019      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Overrepresented word count (75 words)
  • Take-Back Reviewer (3 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)


Least Trusted Reviews

I felt compelled to write this saying how much I ... [Go to full review]
Apr 1, 2020      
19% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 2 Reviews)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.0)


Analysis Details

Warn Unverified Purchases

59 of the 116 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


4.6
4.6


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.

Common Phrases in Reviews:
4 reviews
(5.0/5)
3 reviews
(5.0/5)
7 reviews
(4.3/5)
7 reviews
(5.0/5)
5 reviews
(4.8/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
6 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
5 reviews
(5.0/5)
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Common Phrases in Titles:
3 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(4.5/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
3 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
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40 of the 116 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


4.7
4.5


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 63%
  • 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 73 reviewers (or 63%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.7
4.4


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Rating Trend

  • 0%
  • Created on high-volume days
We counted 116 reviews for this product over the span of 296 days, an average of 0.4 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 4 or fewer reviews on any given day. We didn't find any days exceeding this threshold.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Pass Word Count Comparison

  • 20%
  • Have an overrepresented word count

In the graph above, we can see the distribution of review word counts for this product and the expected distribution for this category. We see the following 1 group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 23 reviews (or 20%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.7
4.6


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Pass Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


8 of the 116 reviewers have only reviewed this product. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from one-hit wonders

from reviewers with more than one review


4.9
4.6


Never-Verified Reviewers


17 of the 116 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from never-verified reviewers

from reviewers with at least one verified purchase review


4.5
4.6


Take-Back Reviewers


27 of the 116 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.5
4.6


Single-Day Reviewers

We didn't detect a substantial amount of Single-Day Reviewers.

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

5% also reviewed:
Lies (Gone) by Michael Grant

Does not include products
from the same brand


16 of the 116 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.

from reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.8
4.6


Read more about our Overlapping Review History 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 4.2, 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


4.2
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters

We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.

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.


1 of the 116 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.

from incentivized reviews

from non-incentivized reviews


5.0
4.6


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
  • 0
  • 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:
  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.