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Mistakes That Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions & How They Came to Be
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From Charlotte Foltz Jones
This report was last updated 9/2/2021.
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Pass Overall Grade
FAIL Deleted Reviews
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Phrase Repetition
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
N/A Reviewer Participation
Most Trusted Reviews
This book is really cute and the stories are informative ... [Go to full review]
Jun 3, 2018
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (3 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.7)
Least Trusted Reviews
Fascinating for my 9 year old grandson and the grown-ups ... [Go to full review]
Oct 19, 2016
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Overrepresented word count (15 words)
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 48 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.9)
Analysis Details
Fail Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 5 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.8. 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 Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
Approximately 30% of 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.
Pass Rating Trend
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- <10%
- Created on high-volume days
We didn't notice any signals that would indicate reviews were created unevenly over time.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Pass Unverified Purchases
19 of the 2,286 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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- <10%
- 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 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:
~7% of reviews
(4.5/5)
(4.5/5)
~10% of reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
Common Phrases in Titles:
~7% of reviews
(4.5/5)
(4.5/5)
Approximately 15% of reviews 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.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
<10% also reviewed:
Bai Flavored Water, Mountainside Variety Pack,... by Bai
<10% also reviewed:
Contigo Jackson Reusable Water Bottle, 24oz, Scuba by Contigo
<10% also reviewed:
Victor Allen's Coffee K Cups, Organic... by Victor Allen
<10% also reviewed:
Pyrography Basics: Techniques and Exercises for... by Lora Irish
<10% also reviewed:
Dr. Scholl's Air-Pillo with Memory Foam... by Dr. Scholl's
<10% also reviewed:
Fire TV Stick bundle with Echo Dot (2nd Gen) -... by Amazon
Does not include products
from the same brand
from the same brand
Approximately 15% of 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 4.4.
4.2 Product's Average Ease Score
4.4 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 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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- <10%
- 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.