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The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno-Affluence
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From Dinesh D'Souza
This report was last updated 10/13/2018.
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 27 Ratings, we counted 26 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 Overall Grade
FAIL Deleted Reviews
FAIL Brand Repeats
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Word Count Comparison
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Ahead of its time. Dave Brooks (Bobos in Paradise) needs ... [Go to full review]
Nov 25, 2013
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.6)
Least Trusted Reviews
We have a winner! The book of the decade is ... [Go to full review]
Nov 9, 2000
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Overrepresented word count (144 words)
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- One-Hit Wonder
- Never-Verified Reviewer
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 1 Review)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 4 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 3. 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.
Fail Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
7 of the 26 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Brand Monogamists
1 of the 26 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
Never-Verified Reviewers
13 of the 26 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. While this is more Never-Verified Reviewers than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Take-Back Reviewers
5 of the 26 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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- 8%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 26 reviews for this product over the span of 5,133 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. 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 Unverified Purchases
22 of the 26 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 Word Count Comparison
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- 42%
- 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 11 reviews (or 42%) 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.
Common Phrases in Reviews:
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3 reviews
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2 reviews
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Common Phrases in Titles:
2 reviews
(4.0/5)
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11 of the 26 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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- 58%
- 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 15 reviewers (or 60%) 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:
20% also reviewed:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Bibliobazaar... by Mark Twain
20% also reviewed:
Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
20% also reviewed:
Hamlet: (Annotated) by William Shakespeare
20% also reviewed:
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote... by Greg Mortenson
16% also reviewed:
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Knickerbocker... by Jane Austen
16% also reviewed:
The Tipping Point [Abridged, Audiobook]... by Malcolm Gladwell
16% also reviewed:
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
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from the same brand
4 of the 26 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
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 3.9, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.
3.9 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
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.