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Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways
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From Brand: Avalon Travel Publishing
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Last Updated: Jan 11, 2018
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 205 Ratings, we counted 206 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".
Report Card
Fail Overall Grade
FAIL
Unverified Purchases

FAIL
Reviewer Ease

WARN
Suspicious Reviewers

WARN
Word Count Comparison

WARN
Phrase Repetition

WARN
Reviewer Participation

PASS
Rating Trend

PASS
Overlapping Review History

PASS
Brand Repeats

PASS
Incentivized Reviews

PASS
Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
There isn't a book out there that covers all the ... [Go to full review]
Mar 6, 2013
100%
TRUST
TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (3 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 3.7)
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.9)
Least Trusted Reviews
Prior to leaving on my spring 2012 solo cross country ... [Go to full review]
Aug 27, 2012
0%
TRUST
TRUST
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Unverified Purchaser
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Contains repetitive phrases (
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Brand Repeater (2 of 50 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.0)
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Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.3)
Analysis Details
Fail
Unverified Purchases

13 of the 206 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 3.5 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.
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
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
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Warn
Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers
13 of the 206 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
Word Count Comparison

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- 36%
- 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 74 reviews (or 36%) are within an overrepresented word count group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented word count groups than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between reviews with overrepresented word groups and all other reviews isn’t significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn
Phrase Repetition

Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
17 of the 206 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Warn
Reviewer Participation

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- 81%
- 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 166 reviewers (or 81%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass
Rating Trend

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- 1%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 206 reviews for this product over the span of 3,136 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.
Pass
Overlapping Review History

Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
4% also reviewed:
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2% also reviewed:
Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty... by Becca Battoe
2% also reviewed:
Rand McNally Large Scale 2012 Road Atlas (Rand... by Rand McNally & Company
2% also reviewed:
Off the Beaten Path: A Travel Guide to More Than... by Reader's Digest
2% also reviewed:
Panasonic ErgoFit In-Ear Earbud Headphone by Panasonic
1% also reviewed:
The Next Exit 2015: The Most Complete Interstate... by Next Exit, Inc. (COR)
1% also reviewed:
Camco Sunshield RV Vent Insulator by Camco
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from the same brand
27 of the 206 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
4 of the 206 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.
Pass
Deleted Reviews

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- 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:
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.