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The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 1,282 Ratings, we counted 121 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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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Unverified Purchases
FAIL Brand Repeats
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Word Count Comparison
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Phrase Repetition
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
I learned a lot from this reading. Very educational. If ... [Go to full review]
Jun 14, 2020
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.8)
Least Trusted Reviews
Can you create a coloring book about economics? You know ... [Go to full review]
May 28, 2020
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Overrepresented word count (20 words)
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 25 Reviews)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.5)
Analysis Details
Fail Unverified Purchases
12 of the 121 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 3.7 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.6. 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.
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.
Fail Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
47 of the 121 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 Loyalists
24 of the 121 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
23 of the 121 reviewers have reviewed multiple products, but only for this brand. This is an excessively large percentage of Brand Monogamists which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Warn Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 6 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.8. 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.
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
45 of the 121 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, the discrepancy in ratings between the Take-Back Reviewers and reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Word Count Comparison
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- 60%
- 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 3 groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 73 reviews (or 60%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is an excessively high number of reviews in overrepresented word count groups.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 68%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 3 participation groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 82 reviewers (or 68%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Rating Trend
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- 0%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 121 reviews for this product over the span of 3,111 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 2 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 0 reviews were created on just 1 day. 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 Rating Trend test.
However, we see the following 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 0 reviews were created on just 1 day. 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 Rating Trend test.
Pass 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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2 reviews
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4 reviews
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2 reviews
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3 reviews
(4.7/5)
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3 reviews
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(3.7/5)
2 reviews
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2 reviews
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2 reviews
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3 reviews
(4.3/5)
(4.3/5)
17 of the 121 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:
11% also reviewed:
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by Will Buckingham
4% also reviewed:
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for... by Lawrence A. Cunningham
4% also reviewed:
The Politics Book (Big Ideas) by DK Publishing
4% also reviewed:
The Religions Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by Neil Philip
3% also reviewed:
Amazon.com Gift Card Balance Reload by Amazon
3% also reviewed:
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31 of the 121 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 4.3, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.
4.3 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.