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Gut Check: Confronting Love, Work, & Manhood
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From Brand: Ransom Books
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Last Updated: Mar 17, 2018
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Brand Repeats
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Reviewer Ease
WARN Word Count Comparison
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Great book! [Go to full review]
Mar 15, 2016
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.0)
Least Trusted Reviews
At a time when the popular media outlets are telling ... [Go to full review]
Mar 3, 2008
0%
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TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Overrepresented word count (107 words)
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Never-Verified Reviewer
- Brand Monogamist (2 of 2 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 2 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Brand Repeats
Brand Loyalists
10 of the 50 reviewers have reviewed multiple products but half or more of their reviews are for this brand. This is an excessively large percentage of Brand Loyalists which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Brand Monogamists
8 of the 50 reviewers have reviewed multiple products, but only for this brand. This is an excessively large percentage of Brand Monogamists which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
7 of the 50 reviewers have only reviewed this product. While this is more One-Hit Wonders than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the One-Hit Wonders and reviewers who have posted more than one review isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Never-Verified Reviewers
23 of the 50 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.
Take-Back Reviewers
6 of the 50 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.
Warn Rating Trend
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- 34%
- Created over 7 days
We counted 50 reviews for this product over the span of 2,935 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 7 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 17 reviews were created on just 7 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Unverified Purchases
39 of the 50 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 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 4.5, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.4. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.
4.5 Product's Average Ease Score
4.4 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Warn Word Count Comparison
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- 40%
- 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 20 reviews (or 40%) 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 Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
26 of the 50 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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- 68%
- 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 34 reviewers (or 68%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
6% also reviewed:
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4% also reviewed:
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4% also reviewed:
The Blind Side (Movie Tie-in Edition) by W.W. Norton & Co
4% also reviewed:
When the Church Was Young: Voices of the Early... by D'Ambrosio, Marcellino
4% also reviewed:
Global Clusters of Innovation: Entrepreneurial... by Jerome S. Engel
4% also reviewed:
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7 of the 50 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 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.
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.