Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
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Most Trusted Reviews
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- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 1.0)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.3)
Least Trusted Reviews
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- Unverified Purchaser
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Take-Back Reviewer (11 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.6)
- Brand Repeater (3 of 774 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.7)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)
Analysis Details
Take-Back Reviewers
17 of the 112 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.
44 of the 112 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.3 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 3.7. 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.
We discovered a total of 1 deleted Review for this product, with an average rating of 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.
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- 15%
- Created over 8 days
We counted 112 reviews for this product over the span of 3,658 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 8 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 17 reviews were created on just 8 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
62 of the 112 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.
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- 51%
- 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 57 reviewers (or 51%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
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- 29%
- 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 32 reviews (or 29%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
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32 of the 112 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.
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4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
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Brand Repeaters
6 of the 112 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.
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- 0%
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.