Close
Pam Allyn's Best Books for Boys: How to Engage Boys in Reading in Ways That Will Change Their Lives
More product info
From Scholastic Teaching Resources
This report was last updated 8/15/2017.
Refresh the report to view the most up-to-date data available:
Refresh the report to view the most up-to-date data available:
View/Edit Adjustment
Jump to Report Card
Report Info:
Last Updated: Aug 15, 2017
Refresh Report
Refresh Report
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
Top products in Children's Books with authentic reviews:
Report Card
Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Incentivized Reviews
WARN Reviewer Ease
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Great author! Gave this book to my sons' teachers at ... [Go to full review]
Oct 15, 2016
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.3)
Least Trusted Reviews
This book shares some wonderful information about how boys feel ... [Go to full review]
Jun 22, 2011
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- One-Hit Wonder
- Never-Verified Reviewer
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 1 Review)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
2 of the 13 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
8 of the 13 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. This is an excessively large percentage of Never-Verified Reviewers which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Take-Back Reviewers
1 of the 13 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.
Single-Day Reviewers
2 of the 13 reviewers have written multiple reviews but posted all of them on a single day. While this is more Single-Day Reviewers than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Warn Rating Trend
-
- 15%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 13 reviews for this product over the span of 1,990 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 an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Unverified Purchases
11 of the 13 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. This is an excessively large percentage of unverified purchases and it may indicate unnatural reviews.
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.
1 of the 13 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 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 4.6, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.
4.6 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
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:
Show MoreShow Less
2 reviews
2 reviews
2 reviews
2 reviews
2 reviews
2 reviews
2 reviews
3 reviews
2 reviews
2 reviews
Common Phrases in Titles:
2 reviews
2 reviews
2 reviews
8 of the 13 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
-
- 69%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 1 participation group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 9 reviewers (or 69%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Word Count Comparison
-
- 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:
31% also reviewed:
Your Child's Writing Life: How to Inspire... by Allyn, Pam
15% also reviewed:
Bamboo People: A Novel by Mitali Perkins
15% also reviewed:
Balance Bar, Healthy Protein Snacks, Cookie... by BALANCE Bar
5 of the 13 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
We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.
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.