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Soul's Gate (A Well Spring Novel)
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From James L. Rubart
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Reviewer Ease
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Incentivized Reviews
WARN Brand Repeats
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
Most Trusted Reviews
Intercession meets heavenly “magic.” Such a great read!! Fun but ... [Go to full review]
May 26, 2018
100%
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- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Brand Repeater (4 of 67 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.3)
Least Trusted Reviews
James L. Rubart never lets you down. This book was ... [Go to full review]
Aug 9, 2013
0%
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- Verified Purchaser
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Brand Loyalist (2 of 3 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 3 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
84 of the 277 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 4.5, 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.
4.5 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Warn Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 6 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4. 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.
Warn Rating Trend
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- 9%
- Created over 7 days
We counted 277 reviews for this product over the span of 2,415 days, an average of 0.1 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 2 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 7 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 24 reviews were created on just 7 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 Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
21 of the 277 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is more than we would expect see; the presences of at least one incentivized review indicates that there may be more, since not all reviewers will disclose that they had received an incentive to post a 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.
Warn Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
90 of the 277 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Repeaters and non-repeaters isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Brand Loyalists
6 of the 277 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 Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
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142 of the 277 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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- 55%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 3 participation groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 153 reviewers (or 55%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Unverified Purchases
120 of the 277 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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- 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:
12% also reviewed:
Rooms: a novel by James L. Rubart
11% also reviewed:
Spirit Bridge (A Well Spring Novel) by James L. Rubart
11% also reviewed:
The Chair: A Novel by James L. Rubart
9% also reviewed:
Secretly Smitten by Colleen Coble
8% also reviewed:
With Every Letter: A Novel (Wings of the... by Sundin, Sarah
8% also reviewed:
The Breath of Dawn (A Rush of Wings Book 3) by Kristen Heitzmann
8% also reviewed:
Afloat by Erin Healy
8% also reviewed:
Anomaly by Krista McGee
8% also reviewed:
Tidewater Inn (The Hope Beach Series) by Coble, Colleen
115 of the 277 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.