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Note: While Amazon.com claims 6,312 Ratings, we counted 6,335 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
Pass Overall Grade
FAIL Phrase Repetition
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
I enjoyed the book quite a bit. Interesting premise, and ... [Go to full review]
Oct 20, 2017
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 2 of 9 top products
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.0)
Least Trusted Reviews
But I must say it was an excellent read. Very ... [Go to full review]
Apr 28, 2016
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 12 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.5)
Analysis Details
Fail 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:
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246 reviews
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114 reviews
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244 reviews
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214 reviews
(4.1/5)
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118 reviews
(4.7/5)
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103 reviews
(4.9/5)
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72 reviews
(5.0/5)
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241 reviews
(4.6/5)
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130 reviews
(4.8/5)
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137 reviews
(4.9/5)
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Common Phrases in Titles:
137 reviews
(4.7/5)
(4.7/5)
822 of the 6,335 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.8 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.4. 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.
Warn Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 67 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.6. 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.
Warn Rating Trend
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- 18%
- Created over 72 days
We counted 6,335 reviews for this product over the span of 1,855 days, an average of 3.4 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 11 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 72 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 1,131 reviews were created on just 72 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
1,825 of the 6,335 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 Reviewer Participation
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- 60%
- 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 3781 reviewers (or 60%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Unverified Purchases
1,142 of the 6,335 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.
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
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- 23%
- 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 1 group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 1,481 reviews (or 23%) are within an overrepresented word count group. 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:
7% also reviewed:
The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
6% also reviewed:
A Man Called Ove: A Novel by Fredrik Backman
6% also reviewed:
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel by Anthony Doerr
4% also reviewed:
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
4% also reviewed:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
4% also reviewed:
Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel by Mark Sullivan
4% also reviewed:
Gone Girl: A Novel by Julia Whelan
3% also reviewed:
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
3% also reviewed:
Me Before You: A Novel (Movie Tie-In) by Jojo Moyes
1,618 of the 6,335 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 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. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.
4.3 Product's Average Ease Score
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
159 of the 6,335 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.
1 of the 6,335 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.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.