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Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul IV (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
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This report was last updated 11/14/2018.
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 642 Ratings, we counted 640 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Rating Trend
FAIL Unverified Purchases
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Reviewer Ease
WARN Word Count Comparison
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Didn't hold my childs attention. [Go to full review]
Feb 15, 2015
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (3 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 3.7)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.9)
Least Trusted Reviews
When I first heard about Chicken Soup For The Teenage ... [Go to full review]
May 18, 2000
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Never-Verified Reviewer
- Brand Repeater (2 of 9 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 9 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Rating Trend
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- 7%
- Created over 13 days
We counted 640 reviews for this product over the span of 7,773 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 13 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 43 reviews were created on just 13 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 4.9 while reviews from other days have rated this product an average of 4.7. 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 Unverified Purchases
421 of the 640 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.7 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.6. 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.
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 Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 2 deleted Reviews 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 Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
79 of the 640 reviewers have only reviewed this product. While this is more One-Hit Wonders than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the One-Hit Wonders and reviewers who have posted more than one review isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Never-Verified Reviewers
165 of the 640 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
38 of the 640 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 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 4.4. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.
4.5 Product's Average Ease Score
4.4 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Warn Word Count Comparison
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- 40%
- 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 2 groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 253 reviews (or 40%) are within an overrepresented word count group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented word count groups than we'd expect to see, these reviews do 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.
Common Phrases in Reviews:
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18 reviews
(4.7/5)
(4.7/5)
8 reviews
(4.8/5)
(4.8/5)
27 reviews
(4.9/5)
(4.9/5)
34 reviews
(4.7/5)
(4.7/5)
37 reviews
(4.8/5)
(4.8/5)
9 reviews
(4.9/5)
(4.9/5)
8 reviews
(4.9/5)
(4.9/5)
24 reviews
(4.8/5)
(4.8/5)
22 reviews
(4.7/5)
(4.7/5)
6 reviews
(4.5/5)
(4.5/5)
96 of the 640 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. While this is more than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the these reviews and reviews without substantial repetitive phrases isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 45%
- 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 287 reviewers (or 67%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Overlapping Review History
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44 of the 640 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 Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
15 of the 640 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.