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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
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This report was last updated 8/9/2021.
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 3,165 Ratings, we counted 323 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
Pass Overall Grade
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Deleted Reviews

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Suspicious Reviewers

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Reviewer Ease

WARN
Phrase Repetition

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Reviewer Participation

PASS
Rating Trend

PASS
Unverified Purchases

PASS
Word Count Comparison

PASS
Overlapping Review History

PASS
Brand Repeats

PASS
Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
There are authors you are completely comfortable inviting into your ... [Go to full review]
Nov 21, 2020
100%
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Verified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (4 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 3.5)
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.2)
Least Trusted Reviews
I love Mary Oliver's poems and this collection is proving ... [Go to full review]
Jul 24, 2018
24%
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Verified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 12 Reviews)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Warn
Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 3 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 3.7. 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.
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Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers
121 of the 323 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, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
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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 4.5, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.4. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.
4.5 Product's Average Ease Score
4.4 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
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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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53 of the 323 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. While this is more than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the these reviews and reviews without substantial repetitive phrases isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
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Reviewer Participation

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- 53%
- 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 171 reviewers (or 53%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass
Rating Trend

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- Created on high-volume days
We counted 323 reviews for this product over the span of 1,363 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. We didn't find any days exceeding this threshold.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Pass
Unverified Purchases

22 of the 323 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.
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Word Count Comparison

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- 29%
- 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 94 reviews (or 29%) 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.
Pass
Overlapping Review History

Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
4% also reviewed:
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel by Anthony Doerr
3% also reviewed:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
3% also reviewed:
A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles
2% also reviewed:
Before We Were Yours: A Novel by Lisa Wingate
2% also reviewed:
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
2% also reviewed:
A Man Called Ove: A Novel by Fredrik Backman
2% also reviewed:
The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
2% also reviewed:
Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) by Min Jin Lee
2% also reviewed:
Our Souls at Night: A novel by Kent Haruf
49 of the 323 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
Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters
10 of the 323 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.