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Broken Promises
More product info From Kelly Elliott

Amazon Reviews for  Broken Promises
Rating:
223 Ratings
223 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
45% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Report Card

Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Reviewer Ease
FAIL Phrase Repetition
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Brand Repeats
WARN Word Count Comparison
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

5/5
Loved this story [Go to full review]
Feb 28, 2015      
95% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (312 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.9)
  • Brand Repeater (12 of 688 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 2 of 9 top products
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.9)


Least Trusted Reviews

We couldn't find any low-quality reviews

Analysis Details

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


9 of the 223 reviewers have only reviewed this product. The One-Hit Wonders have rated this product an average of 4.0 while the reviewers who have posted more than one review 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.

from one-hit wonders

from reviewers with more than one review


4.0
4.7


Take-Back Reviewers


6 of the 223 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.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.3
4.7


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 4.6, 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.

4.6 Product's Average Ease Score

4.2 Category's Average Ease Score


4.6
4.2


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Fail Phrase Repetition


109 of the 223 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 4.5. 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
4.5


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Rating Trend

  • 35%
  • Created over 10 days

We counted 223 reviews for this product over the span of 947 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 10 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 78 reviews were created on just 10 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.8
4.7


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn Brand Repeats

Brand Loyalists


6 of the 223 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.

from Brand Loyalists

from Non-Loyalists


5.0
4.7


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

Warn Word Count Comparison

  • 57%
  • 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 3 groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 127 reviews (or 57%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is an excessively high number of reviews in overrepresented word count groups.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.7
4.8


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 53%
  • 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 119 reviewers (or 53%) 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


4.6
4.8


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

25 of the 223 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.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.8
4.7


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

16% also reviewed:
Stepbrother Dearest by Penelope Ward

Does not include products
from the same brand


96 of the 223 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


4.8
4.7


Read more about our Overlapping Review History 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.


1 of the 223 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from incentivized reviews

from non-incentivized reviews


5.0
4.7


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.