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The Trail of Blood: Following the Christians Down through the Centuries - or, The History of...
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Amazon Reviews for  The Trail of Blood: Following the Christians Down through the Centuries - or, The History of Baptist Churches from the Time of Christ, Their Founder, to the Present Day
Rating:
126 Ratings
126 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
63% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Unverified Purchases
FAIL Word Count Comparison
FAIL Reviewer Participation
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Phrase Repetition
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

5/5
LOVE thi book!! Very happy!! [Go to full review]
Jan 12, 2015      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.9)


Least Trusted Reviews

Accurate research and an easy read. You can read this ... [Go to full review]
Feb 23, 2013      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Overrepresented word count (31 words)
  • One-Hit Wonder
  • Never-Verified Reviewer
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 1 Review)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)


Analysis Details

Fail Unverified Purchases

30 of the 126 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 3.1 while the verified purchasers have 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 unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


3.1
4.3


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 Word Count Comparison

  • 37%
  • 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 46 reviews (or 37%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.4, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 3.8. 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.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.4
3.8


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Fail Reviewer Participation

  • 77%
  • 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 97 reviewers (or 77%) are within an overrepresented participation group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.1, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 3.6. 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 reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.1
3.6


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Warn Rating Trend

  • 10%
  • Created over 6 days

We counted 126 reviews for this product over the span of 4,323 days, an average of 0.0 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 1 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 6 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 12 reviews were created on just 6 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.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.0
4.0


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


16 of the 126 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


4.4
3.9


Take-Back Reviewers


5 of the 126 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


3.4
4.0


Single-Day Reviewers


24 of the 126 reviewers have written multiple reviews but posted all of them on a single day. While this is more Single-Day Reviewers than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from single-day reviewers

from non-single-day reviewers


4.0
4.0


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Warn Phrase Repetition


25 of the 126 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


3.8
4.0


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

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

2% also reviewed:
Facebook by Facebook

2% also reviewed:
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy) by Spectra



17 of the 126 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


3.8
4.0


Read more about our Overlapping Review History 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 4.2, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.4.

4.2 Product's Average Ease Score

4.4 Category's Average Ease Score


4.2
4.4


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


2 of the 126 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


1.0
4.1


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.