The Pursuit of Loneliness, 20th Anniversary Edition
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From Philip Slater
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Most Trusted Reviews
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (5 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.4)
- Brand Repeater (2 of 154 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.0)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.3)
Least Trusted Reviews
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- Unverified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Never-Verified Reviewer
- Brand Loyalist (2 of 4 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
We discovered a total of 2 deleted Reviews 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.
Brand Loyalists
2 of the 29 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.
Never-Verified Reviewers
7 of the 29 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
10 of the 29 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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- Created over 2 days
We counted 29 reviews for this product over the span of 7,289 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 2 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 6 reviews were created on just 2 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
15 of the 29 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. While this is a higher percentage of unverified purchases than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the unverified purchases and verified purchases isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
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.
4.5 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
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6 of the 29 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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- Have an overrepresented word count
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5 of the 29 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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- 0%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
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- Admitted to receiving an incentive
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.