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Sand Sharks (Deborah Knott Mysteries)
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Amazon Reviews for  Sand Sharks (Deborah Knott Mysteries)
Rating:
66 Ratings
66 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
39% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Word Count Comparison
FAIL Overlapping Review History
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Phrase Repetition
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

Margaret Maron sends Judge Deborah Knott to a seaside judicial ... [Go to full review]
Feb 7, 2011      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.9)


Least Trusted Reviews

Deborah Knott is having some trouble adjusting to being a ... [Go to full review]
Aug 23, 2009      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Overrepresented word count (148 words)
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Take-Back Reviewer (16 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.2)
  • Brand Repeater (2 of 799 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.5)
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 4 of 9 top products
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.1)


Analysis Details

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers


13 of the 66 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.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.4
4.2


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Fail Word Count Comparison

  • 21%
  • 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 14 reviews (or 21%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 3.7, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 4.4. 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.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


3.7
4.4


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

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

Does not include products
from the same brand


26 of the 66 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.5 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 4.1. 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.

from reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.5
4.1


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Warn Rating Trend

  • 15%
  • Created over 5 days

We counted 66 reviews for this product over the span of 2,764 days, an average of 0.0 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 1 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 5 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 10 reviews were created on just 5 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.4
4.2


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn Unverified Purchases

36 of the 66 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


4.1
4.4


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.



24 of the 66 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


4.2
4.2


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Pass Reviewer Participation

  • 0%
  • From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We didn't find any participation groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Reviewer Participation 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 4.3, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.

4.3 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.3
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


6 of the 66 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.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


4.5
4.2


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

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.

  • 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.

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.