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The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities
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From Brand: Three Rivers Press
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Last Updated: Aug 4, 2017
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Rating Trend
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Phrase Repetition
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
This is Stephen Jay Gould's final book, published posthumously. I ... [Go to full review]
Mar 11, 2012
100%
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- Verified Purchaser
- Single-Day Reviewer (posted all reviews on Mar 11, 2012)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.0)
Least Trusted Reviews
Truly enjoy the book, a passionate humanistic scientist in action! ... [Go to full review]
Feb 15, 2004
0%
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- Unverified Purchaser
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- One-Hit Wonder
- Never-Verified Reviewer
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Rating Trend
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- 21%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 19 reviews for this product over the span of 4,583 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 4 reviews were created on just 1 day. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 5.0 while reviews from other days have rated this product an average of 3.3. 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.
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
3 of the 19 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
5 of the 19 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. The Never-Verified Reviewers have rated this product an average of 2.6 while the reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review rated this product an average of 4.0. 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.
Take-Back Reviewers
7 of the 19 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.
Warn Unverified Purchases
14 of the 19 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 Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
Common Phrases in Titles:
12 of the 19 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
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:
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58% also reviewed:
The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis
53% also reviewed:
The Varieties of Religious Experience by James, William
47% also reviewed:
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
47% also reviewed:
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without... by Sam Harris
42% also reviewed:
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the... by Brian Greene
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Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Pagels, Elaine H.
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from the same brand
8 of the 19 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 Participation
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- 0%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We didn't find any participation groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.
Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.
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 4.1, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.2.
4.1 Product's Average Ease Score
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
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Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
4 of the 19 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.