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Not a Genuine Black Man: Or, How I Claimed My Piece of Ground in the Lily-White Suburbs
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Last Updated: Mar 17, 2018
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FAIL Overlapping Review History
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Brand Repeats
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
I was born and raised in San Leandro and I ... [Go to full review]
Jun 26, 2013
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (11 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.7)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)
Least Trusted Reviews
Brian Copeland's new memoir shows us the world through the ... [Go to full review]
Jul 28, 2008
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Never-Verified Reviewer
- Brand Loyalist (2 of 3 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 3 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.7)
Analysis Details
Fail Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
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5% also reviewed:
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6 of the 57 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 3.8 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 4.9. 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.
Warn Rating Trend
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- 7%
- Created over 2 days
We counted 57 reviews for this product over the span of 4,178 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 4 reviews were created on just 2 days. 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
29 of the 57 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 Brand Repeats
Brand Loyalists
2 of the 57 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 Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
11 of the 57 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
17 of the 57 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
4 of the 57 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.
20 of the 57 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 72%
- 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 41 reviewers (or 72%) 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 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 4.3, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.2. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.
4.3 Product's Average Ease Score
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
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.