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Outlining Your Novel Workbook: Step-by-Step Exercises for Planning Your Best Book
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From K.M. Weiland
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Last Updated: Feb 25, 2017
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 143 Ratings, we counted 131 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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Pass Overall Grade
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Reviewer Ease
WARN Brand Repeats
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Phrase Repetition
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Still haven't completed it yet. Going to work on it ... [Go to full review]
Sep 24, 2016
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Overrepresented word count (14 words)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)
Least Trusted Reviews
This book is very helpful for outlining and organizing novels, ... [Go to full review]
Jun 3, 2016
5%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
- Brand Repeater (5 of 18 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.8)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 2 of 9 top products
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 18 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.5)
Analysis Details
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
32 of the 131 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.
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 4.4, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3. 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.
4.4 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Warn Brand Repeats
Brand Loyalists
3 of the 131 reviewers have reviewed multiple products but half or more of their reviews are for this brand. While this is more Brand Loyalists than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Loyalists and non-loyalists isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 86%
- 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 113 reviewers (or 86%) 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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- 3%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 131 reviews for this product over the span of 809 days, an average of 0.2 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 3 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 4 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.
Pass Unverified Purchases
16 of the 131 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 Word Count Comparison
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- 20%
- 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 1 group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 26 reviews (or 20%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
13 of the 131 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:
21% also reviewed:
Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success by K. M. Weiland
5% also reviewed:
Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass
4% also reviewed:
Write Your Novel From The Middle: A New Approach... by Bell, James Scott
4% also reviewed:
Take Off Your Pants!: Outline Your Books for... by Libbie Hawker
3% also reviewed:
How to Make a Living as a Writer by Bell, James Scott
3% also reviewed:
The Girl on the Train: A Novel by Paula Hawkins
57 of the 131 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 Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
1 of the 131 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. 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.