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Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and Treasure
More product info From Beck, Glenn/ Balfe, Kevin/ Nunn, Paul E. (ILT)/ Schweizer, Peter (CON)/ Grimm, Tyler (CON)

Amazon Reviews for  Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and Treasure
Rating:
440 Ratings
440 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
60% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Rating Trend
FAIL Unverified Purchases
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Reviewer Ease
FAIL Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

Gives you ideas even if he's incorrect in places. [Go to full review]
Jan 18, 2015      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.3)


Least Trusted Reviews

Excellent book. Full of real details (that can be verified) ... [Go to full review]
Dec 1, 2010      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Overrepresented word count (36 words)
  • One-Hit Wonder
  • Never-Verified Reviewer
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 1 Review)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)


Analysis Details

Fail Rating Trend

  • 30%
  • Created over 21 days

We counted 440 reviews for this product over the span of 2,428 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 21 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 133 reviews were created on just 21 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 4.5 while reviews from other days have rated this product an average of 4.2. 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.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.5
4.2


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Fail Unverified Purchases

138 of the 440 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 3.6 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.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


3.6
4.6


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.

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


56 of the 440 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.

from one-hit wonders

from reviewers with more than one review


4.5
4.3


Never-Verified Reviewers


40 of the 440 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. The Never-Verified Reviewers have rated this product an average of 3.5 while the reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review 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.

from never-verified reviewers

from reviewers with at least one verified purchase review


3.5
4.4


Take-Back Reviewers


44 of the 440 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. The Take-Back Reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.8 while the reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history have rated this product an average of 4.2. 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.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.8
4.2


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

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 4.3, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.2. 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.

4.3 Product's Average Ease Score

4.2 Category's Average Ease Score


4.3
4.2


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Fail Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.

Common Phrases in Titles:
24 reviews
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16 of the 440 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.9 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 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.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.9
4.3


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 62%
  • 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 271 reviewers (or 62%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.2
4.4


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Word Count Comparison

  • 20%
  • 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 89 reviews (or 20%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.2
4.3


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:

5% also reviewed:
The Overton Window by Glenn Beck

Does not include products
from the same brand


130 of the 440 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.

from reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.2
4.3


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


53 of the 440 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.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


4.7
4.2


Read more about our Brand Repeats 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.

  • 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.

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:
  1. 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.
  2. We have no information on reviews that were never published in the first place.
  3. 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.
Read more about our Deleted Reviews test.