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This report was last updated 7/23/2019.
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 86 Ratings, we counted 85 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
Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Deleted Reviews
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
I am a space junky and I don't know why ... [Go to full review]
Sep 13, 2018
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.2)
Least Trusted Reviews
Chris Kraft sure is no unknown to everybody interested in ... [Go to full review]
Jul 27, 2001
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Never-Verified Reviewer
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 2 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 10 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.4. 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 Unverified Purchases
46 of the 85 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. While this is a higher percentage of unverified purchases than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the unverified purchases and verified purchases isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
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 Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
12 of the 85 reviewers have only reviewed this product. While this is more One-Hit Wonders than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Never-Verified Reviewers
29 of the 85 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. While this is more Never-Verified Reviewers than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Never-Verified Reviewers and reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
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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2 reviews
(4.5/5)
(4.5/5)
2 reviews
(4.0/5)
(4.0/5)
20 reviews
(4.4/5)
(4.4/5)
7 reviews
(4.7/5)
(4.7/5)
7 reviews
(4.7/5)
(4.7/5)
2 reviews
(3.0/5)
(3.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
6 reviews
(4.7/5)
(4.7/5)
5 reviews
(4.4/5)
(4.4/5)
10 reviews
(4.6/5)
(4.6/5)
57 of the 85 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 62%
- 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 53 reviewers (or 62%) 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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- 2%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 85 reviews for this product over the span of 6,612 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 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 2 reviews were created on just 1 day. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
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:
14% also reviewed:
Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from... by Gene Kranz
8% also reviewed:
Apollo 13: Lost Moon by Pocket
8% also reviewed:
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan... by Eugene Cernan
7% also reviewed:
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo... by Brand: Viking Adult
6% also reviewed:
This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age... by Burrows, William E.
6% also reviewed:
For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey Of A... by Scott Carpenter
6% also reviewed:
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
6% also reviewed:
Asylum of the Daleks by Steven Moffat
Does not include products
from the same brand
from the same brand
27 of the 85 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 4.3, 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
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Monogamists
1 of the 85 reviewers have reviewed multiple products, but only 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.