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Note: While Amazon.com claims 19,299 Ratings, we counted 3,660 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".
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FAIL 
Deleted Reviews
Deleted ReviewsWARN Rating Trend
Rating TrendWARN Suspicious Reviewers
Suspicious ReviewersWARN Reviewer Participation
Reviewer ParticipationPASS Unverified Purchases
Unverified PurchasesPASS Word Count Comparison
Word Count ComparisonPASS Phrase Repetition
Phrase RepetitionPASS Overlapping Review History
Overlapping Review HistoryPASS Reviewer Ease
Reviewer EasePASS Brand Repeats
Brand RepeatsPASS Incentivized Reviews
Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
this book was so good it was filled with a ... [Go to full review]
Oct 7, 1998
100%
TRUST
TRUST
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Unverified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (106220 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.3) -
Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.2)
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Verified Purchaser
Least Trusted Reviews
When a glance is given to the book The Outsiders, ... [Go to full review]
Feb 5, 2003
16%
TRUST
TRUST
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Unverified Purchaser
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Created on a high volume day
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One-Hit Wonder -
Never-Verified Reviewer -
Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 4.0)
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Brand Monogamist (2 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.0) -
Overrepresented Participation (posted 1 Review) -
Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Deleted Reviews
Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 540 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.6. 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.
4.6 average rating of deleted reviews
Warn Rating Trend
Rating Trend
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- 7%
- Created over 29 days
We counted 3,660 reviews for this product over the span of 8,464 days, an average of 0.4 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 4 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 29 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 251 reviews were created on just 29 days. Although any days with a larger number of reviews than expected is suspicious, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
410 of the 3,660 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
882 of the 3,660 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.
Warn Reviewer Participation
Reviewer Participation
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- 53%
- 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 1928 reviewers (or 63%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Unverified Purchases
Unverified Purchases
1,613 of the 3,660 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 Word Count Comparison
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 Phrase Repetition
Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
135 of the 3,660 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
4% also reviewed:
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
3% also reviewed:
The Giver (Giver Quartet, 1) by Lois Lowry
2% also reviewed:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2% also reviewed:
The Outsiders by C. Thomas Howell
2% also reviewed:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2% also reviewed:
Insurgent: Divergent, Book 2 by Veronica Roth
2% also reviewed:
Gone Girl: A Novel by Julia Whelan
2% also reviewed:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
1% also reviewed:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
357 of the 3,660 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 4.5, 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.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
132 of the 3,660 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. 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.