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The Goldfinch
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From Donna Tartt (author)
This report was last updated 5/6/2019.
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 26,032 reviews, we counted 26,047 available on their site.
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FAIL 
Suspicious Reviewers
Suspicious ReviewersFAIL Phrase Repetition
Phrase RepetitionWARN Deleted Reviews
Deleted ReviewsWARN Rating Trend
Rating TrendWARN Word Count Comparison
Word Count ComparisonWARN Reviewer Participation
Reviewer ParticipationPASS Unverified Purchases
Unverified PurchasesPASS Overlapping Review History
Overlapping Review HistoryPASS Reviewer Ease
Reviewer EasePASS Brand Repeats
Brand RepeatsPASS Incentivized Reviews
Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
The characters are beautifully drawn. I didn't want the story ... [Go to full review]
Jan 1, 2014
50%
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Unverified Purchaser -
Created on a high volume day -
Overrepresented word count (31 words)
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Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted review; avg. rating: 4.0) -
Overrepresented Participation (posted 15 reviews) -
Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.3)
Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.9)
Least Trusted Reviews
Intriguing, beautifully written and one of my very favorite books. ... [Go to full review]
Nov 24, 2015
0%
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Verified Purchaser -
Overrepresented word count (18 words)
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Contains repetitive phrases (
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Single-Day Reviewer (posted all reviews on Nov 24, 2015) -
Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted review; avg. rating: 2.0)
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 2 reviews)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
2,966 of the 26,047 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.
Take-Back Reviewers
6,763 of the 26,047 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.
Single-Day Reviewers
434 of the 26,047 reviewers have written multiple reviews but posted all of them on a single day. The Single-Day reviewers have rated this product an average of 3.9 while all other reviewers rated this product an average of 3.8. 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.
Fail Phrase Repetition
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:
1343 reviews
(3.3/5)
(3.3/5)
277 reviews
(4.6/5)
(4.6/5)
278 reviews
(4.6/5)
(4.6/5)
Common Phrases in Titles:
258 reviews
(4.4/5)
(4.4/5)
348 of the 26,047 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.4 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 3.8. 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.
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Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 267 deleted reviews for this product, with an average rating of 3.9. 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.
3.9 average rating of deleted reviews
Warn Rating Trend
Rating Trend
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- 69%
- Created over 350 days
We counted 26,047 reviews for this product over the span of 2,048 days, an average of 12.7 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 26 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 350 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 17,962 reviews were created on just 350 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Word Count Comparison
Word Count Comparison
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- 43%
- 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 2 groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 11,325 reviews (or 43%) are within an overrepresented word count group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented word count groups than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between reviews with overrepresented word groups and all other reviews isn’t significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Reviewer Participation
Reviewer Participation
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- 69%
- 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 17989 reviewers (or 69%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Unverified Purchases
Unverified Purchases
3,759 of the 26,047 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.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
7% also reviewed:
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel by Anthony Doerr
5% also reviewed:
Gone Girl: A Novel by Julia Whelan
5% also reviewed:
The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
4% also reviewed:
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
4% also reviewed:
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
3% also reviewed:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
3% also reviewed:
Big Little Lies (Movie Tie-In) by Liane Moriarty
3% also reviewed:
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
3% also reviewed:
A Man Called Ove: A Novel by Fredrik Backman
6,195 of the 26,047 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
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, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.
4.0 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
665 of the 26,047 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
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, or check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test, or check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.