The Smoke at Dawn: A Novel of the Civil War (the Civil War in the West)
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From Shaara, Jeff
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Most Trusted Reviews
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- Unverified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (3 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 3.7)
- Brand Repeater (2 of 249 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.5)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 3 of 9 top products
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.0)
Least Trusted Reviews
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- Verified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Overrepresented word count (13 words)
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 14 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)
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- 40%
- 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 2 groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 271 reviews (or 40%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.7, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 4.6. 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.
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- 29%
- Created over 30 days
We counted 686 reviews for this product over the span of 1,190 days, an average of 0.6 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.
However, we see the following 30 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 201 reviews were created on just 30 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Take-Back Reviewers
29 of the 686 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, the discrepancy in ratings between the Take-Back Reviewers and reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
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- 72%
- 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 494 reviewers (or 72%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
144 of the 686 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.
96 of the 686 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
12% also reviewed:
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5% also reviewed:
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4% also reviewed:
Gray Mountain: A Novel by John Grisham
4% also reviewed:
The Martian: Classroom Edition: A Novel by Andy Weir
3% also reviewed:
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
3% also reviewed:
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3% also reviewed:
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3% also reviewed:
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194 of the 686 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.
Brand Repeaters
38 of the 686 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.
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- 0%
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
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- Reviews have been deleted
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.