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Foundryside: A Novel (The Founders Trilogy)
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From Robert Jackson Bennett
This report was last updated 12/1/2020.
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 748 Ratings, we counted 385 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".
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Pass Overall Grade
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Incentivized Reviews
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Phrase Repetition
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
The concepts within this book are fascinating! I was hooked ... [Go to full review]
Feb 18, 2019
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.5)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.3)
Least Trusted Reviews
*4.5 stars rounded up. One of the most inventive fantasy ... [Go to full review]
Aug 21, 2018
0%
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- Unverified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 2 of 9 top products
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)
Analysis Details
Warn Rating Trend
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- 18%
- Created over 4 days
We counted 385 reviews for this product over the span of 921 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.
However, we see the following 4 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 68 reviews were created on just 4 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Unverified Purchases
204 of the 385 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.
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 Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
24 of the 385 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is more than we would expect see; the presences of at least one incentivized review indicates that there may be more, since not all reviewers will disclose that they had received an incentive to post a 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.
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
124 of the 385 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.
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:
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“any given innovation that empowers the individual will inevitably come to empower the powerful much
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152 of the 385 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Pass Word Count Comparison
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- 0%
- 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 Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
9% also reviewed:
Artemis: A Novel by Andy Weir
7% also reviewed:
The Girl in the Tower: A Novel (Winternight... by Katherine Arden
7% also reviewed:
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
7% also reviewed:
The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel... by Katherine Arden
7% also reviewed:
All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries (The... by Martha Wells
6% also reviewed:
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
6% also reviewed:
Dark Matter: A Mind-Blowing Twisted Thriller by Blake Crouch
6% also reviewed:
Recursion: A Novel by Blake Crouch
6% also reviewed:
The Warehouse: A Novel by Rob Hart
122 of the 385 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 Participation
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- 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.
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 4.2. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.
4.3 Product's Average Ease Score
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
17 of the 385 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 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:
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.