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Last Updated: Jul 26, 2017
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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Incentivized Reviews
FAIL Reviewer Ease
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Word Count Comparison
WARN Phrase Repetition
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Brand Repeats
Most Trusted Reviews
Bought after reading all the positive reviews. The book is ... [Go to full review]
Nov 8, 2015
100%
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- Verified Purchaser
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 1.8)
Least Trusted Reviews
Title: Life Lessons in Nature Author: Elvis Newman Publisher: Outskirts ... [Go to full review]
May 25, 2014 7 of 9 found this helpful.
0%
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- Unverified Purchaser
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Take-Back Reviewer (529 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.2)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.1)
Analysis Details
Fail 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 138 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. Incentivized reviews have rated this product an average of 3.0 while reviews that were not incentivized rated this product an average of 4.8. 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.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
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 4.7, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 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.
4.7 Product's Average Ease Score
4.4 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Warn Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 1 deleted Review for this product, with an average rating of 5. 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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- 27%
- Created over 7 days
We counted 138 reviews for this product over the span of 786 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 7 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 37 reviews were created on just 7 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Unverified Purchases
93 of the 138 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 Suspicious Reviewers
Never-Verified Reviewers
33 of the 138 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. While this is more Never-Verified Reviewers than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Never-Verified Reviewers and reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Take-Back Reviewers
12 of the 138 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 Word Count Comparison
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- 47%
- 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 65 reviews (or 47%) are within an overrepresented word count group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented word count groups than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between reviews with overrepresented word groups and all other reviews 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.
94 of the 138 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
10% also reviewed:
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9% also reviewed:
An Adventure in Mysticism by Don Mardak
9% also reviewed:
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8% also reviewed:
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8% also reviewed:
Libellus de Numeros (Magicae Mathematica Book 1) by Jim West
41 of the 138 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 Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
11 of the 138 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.