The Wood's Edge: A Novel (The Pathfinders)
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From Lori Benton
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Most Trusted Reviews
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- Verified Purchaser
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.1)
Least Trusted Reviews
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- Unverified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 2.0)
- Brand Repeater (2 of 329 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.5)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 6 of 9 top products
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)
Analysis Details
Take-Back Reviewers
53 of the 167 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. This is an excessively large percentage of Take-Back Reviewers which may indicate unnatural reviews.
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- 23%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 1 participation group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 38 reviewers (or 23%) are within an overrepresented participation group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.8, while all other reviews 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.
We discovered a total of 4 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.5. 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:
- 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.
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- 26%
- Created over 11 days
We counted 167 reviews for this product over the span of 1,346 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 11 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 44 reviews were created on just 11 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
103 of the 167 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. While this is a higher percentage of unverified purchases than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
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.
37 of the 167 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is more than we would expect see; the presences of at least one incentivized review indicates that there may be more, since not all reviewers will disclose that they had received an incentive to post a 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.
Brand Repeaters
56 of the 167 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Repeaters and non-repeaters isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
4.5 Product's Average Ease Score
4.4 Category's Average Ease Score
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114 of the 167 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
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100 of the 167 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. While this is more than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
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- Have an overrepresented word count
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