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Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
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Amazon Reviews for  Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Rating:
881 Ratings
362 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
0% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Jan 8, 2021
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 881 Ratings, we counted 362 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

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

Most Trusted Reviews

Fascinating, but a difficult, slow read. Tons of characters to ... [Go to full review]
Jul 15, 2020      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (7 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 3.7)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.3)


Least Trusted Reviews

Excellent journalism and very well articulated research from McLean and ... [Go to full review]
May 24, 2004      
45% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 11 Reviews)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)


Analysis Details

Warn Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 18 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.3. 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:
  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.

4.3 average rating of deleted reviews

4.3


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Warn Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers


125 of the 362 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


4.5
4.6


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

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:
30 reviews
(4.6/5)
11 reviews
(4.6/5)
24 reviews
(4.7/5)
19 reviews
(4.8/5)
5 reviews
(4.8/5)
3 reviews
(4.0/5)
15 reviews
(4.6/5)
9 reviews
(4.3/5)
8 reviews
(4.5/5)
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Common Phrases in Titles:
5 reviews
(5.0/5)
4 reviews
(4.8/5)


56 of the 362 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.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.7
4.6


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 68%
  • From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

We see the following 3 participation groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 245 reviewers (or 68%) 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
4.5


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Rating Trend

  • 1%
  • Created over 1 day

We counted 362 reviews for this product over the span of 6,263 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 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 3 reviews were created on just 1 day. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


5.0
4.6


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

144 of the 362 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


4.6
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.

Pass Word Count Comparison

  • 0%
  • Have an overrepresented word count
We didn't find any review word count groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

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

Does not include products
from the same brand


65 of the 362 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


4.6
4.6


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

4.3 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.3
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


13 of the 362 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
4.6


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.