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Before Amen: The Power of a Simple Prayer
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Last Updated: Oct 1, 2017
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL
Suspicious Reviewers

FAIL
Reviewer Ease

FAIL
Word Count Comparison

WARN
Rating Trend

WARN
Reviewer Participation

PASS
Unverified Purchases

PASS
Phrase Repetition

PASS
Overlapping Review History

PASS
Brand Repeats

PASS
Incentivized Reviews

PASS
Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
not sure what I expected but this wasn't it. wanted ... [Go to full review]
Jun 13, 2017
100%
TRUST
TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted reviews; avg. rating: 5.0)
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.4)
Least Trusted Reviews
Loved it!!! [Go to full review]
Dec 13, 2014
0%
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TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Created on a high volume day
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Overrepresented word count (2 words)
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 6 reviews)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Fail
Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders
70 of the 662 reviewers have only reviewed this product. The One-Hit Wonders have rated this product an average of 4.9 while the reviewers who have posted more than one review have rated this product an average of 4.8. 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.
Take-Back Reviewers
38 of the 662 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.
Fail
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 4.6, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.4. 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.
4.6 Product's Average Ease Score
4.4 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Fail
Word Count Comparison

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- 56%
- 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 371 reviews (or 56%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.9, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 4.8. 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.
Warn
Rating Trend

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- 18%
- Created over 20 days
We counted 662 reviews for this product over the span of 1,082 days, an average of 0.6 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 20 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 122 reviews were created on just 20 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn
Reviewer Participation

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- 66%
- 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 439 reviewers (or 66%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass
Unverified Purchases

43 of the 662 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
Phrase Repetition

Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
21 of the 662 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

Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
2% also reviewed:
God Will Use This for Good: Surviving the Mess of... by Lucado, Max
2% also reviewed:
Miracle at the Higher Grounds Cafe by Max Lucado, Candace Lee, Eric Newman
2% also reviewed:
NIV, Teen Study Bible, eBook by Zondervan
2% also reviewed:
Bible by Life.Church
2% also reviewed:
The Circle Maker Curriculum Kit: Praying Circles... by Mark Batterson
114 of the 662 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
Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters
112 of the 662 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

On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
5 of the 662 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
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.
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.