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From Deborah Taylor-Hough
This report was last updated 9/2/2018.
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Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
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Warn Overall Grade
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
great [Go to full review]
Jan 9, 2015
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.5)
Least Trusted Reviews
As a veteran of the simple/frugal living movement, I pre-ordered ... [Go to full review]
Feb 24, 2003
15%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Never-Verified Reviewer
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 2 Reviews)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 2.0)
Analysis Details
Warn Rating Trend
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- 11%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 27 reviews for this product over the span of 5,530 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 3 reviews were created on just 1 day. Although any days with a larger number of reviews than expected is suspicious, the discrepancy in ratings from reviews created on these high volume days and reviews created on other days isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Unverified Purchases
16 of the 27 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. While this is a higher percentage of unverified purchases than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
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 Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
4 of the 27 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.
Never-Verified Reviewers
9 of the 27 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
1 of the 27 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 Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
6 of the 27 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. While this is more than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 63%
- 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 17 reviewers (or 63%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass 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 Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
7% also reviewed:
The Mephisto Club (Jane Rizzoli, Book 6) by Ballantine Books
7% also reviewed:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry... by J.K. Rowling
7% also reviewed:
Frozen Assets Lite and Easy: Cook for a Day, Eat... by Brand: Champion Press (WI)
7% also reviewed:
Frozen Assets: How to Cook for a Day and Eat for... by Brand: Champion Press (WI)
7% also reviewed:
The Last Juror: A Novel by John Grisham
7% also reviewed:
Pulp Fiction by John Travolta
7% also reviewed:
Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's... by Todd Burpo
Does not include products
from the same brand
from the same brand
7 of the 27 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 4.2, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.4.
4.2 Product's Average Ease Score
4.4 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
2 of the 27 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.
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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.
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.