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True Evil: A Novel
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Last Updated: Sep 6, 2017
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Pass Overall Grade
FAIL Phrase Repetition
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
PASS Unverified Purchases
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
As advertised, thank you, fast shipping [Go to full review]
Sep 1, 2017
100%
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- Verified Purchaser
- Brand Repeater (2 of 83 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.7)
Least Trusted Reviews
I was captivated from the first page. I love Greg ... [Go to full review]
Sep 6, 2014
40%
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- Unverified Purchaser
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)
Analysis Details
Fail 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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121 of the 671 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.7 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.4. 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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- 10%
- Created over 13 days
We counted 671 reviews for this product over the span of 3,917 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 13 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 67 reviews were created on just 13 days. Although any days with a larger number of reviews than expected is suspicious, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
62 of the 671 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.
Pass Unverified Purchases
186 of the 671 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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- 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:
10% also reviewed:
Natchez Burning: A Novel (Penn Cage Novels) by Iles, Greg
8% also reviewed:
The Bone Tree (Penn Cage) by Iles, Greg/ Petkoff, Robert (NRT)
8% also reviewed:
The Quiet Game (Penn Cage) by Greg Iles
8% also reviewed:
Blood Memory: A Novel (Mississippi Book 5) by Greg Iles
7% also reviewed:
The Girl on the Train: A Novel by Paula Hawkins
6% also reviewed:
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Brand: MacLehose Press
6% also reviewed:
The Brass Verdict (A Lincoln Lawyer Novel Book 2) by Michael Connelly
6% also reviewed:
The Devil's Punchbowl: A Novel by Scribner
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from the same brand
223 of the 671 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 4.3, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.
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4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
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Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
38 of the 671 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
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- 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.