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Last Updated: Nov 18, 2017
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Suspicious Reviewers

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Deleted Reviews

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Reviewer Ease

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Word Count Comparison

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Phrase Repetition

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Reviewer Participation

PASS
Rating Trend

PASS
Unverified Purchases

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Overlapping Review History

PASS
Brand Repeats

PASS
Incentivized Reviews

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Can ANYONE out there explain why a book like this ... [Go to full review]
Dec 25, 2011
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.1)
Least Trusted Reviews
We couldn't find any low-quality reviews
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Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers
18 of the 178 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.
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Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 1 deleted Review for this product, with an average rating of 5. 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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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 4.4, 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.
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Word Count Comparison

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- 32%
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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 57 reviews (or 32%) 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.
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Phrase Repetition

Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
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29 of the 178 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
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Reviewer Participation

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- 67%
- 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 119 reviewers (or 67%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
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Rating Trend

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- Created on high-volume days
We counted 178 reviews for this product over the span of 3,083 days, an average of 0.1 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. We didn't find any days exceeding this threshold.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
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Unverified Purchases

26 of the 178 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.
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Overlapping Review History

Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
4% also reviewed:
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3% also reviewed:
Man Woman Wild by Discovery - Gaiam
3% also reviewed:
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UCO Stormproof Match Kit with Waterproof Case, 25... by UCO
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40 of the 178 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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Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters
We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.
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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%
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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.