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Shock & Awe (A Sidewinder Story)
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From Abigail Roux
This report was last updated 11/15/2018.
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Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
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Pass Overall Grade
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Rating Trend

WARN
Deleted Reviews

WARN
Suspicious Reviewers

WARN
Phrase Repetition

WARN
Overlapping Review History

WARN
Reviewer Participation

PASS
Unverified Purchases

PASS
Word Count Comparison

PASS
Reviewer Ease

PASS
Brand Repeats

PASS
Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
Anything That has to do with CUT&RUN im on board. [Go to full review]
Dec 22, 2015
100%
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TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Brand Repeater (3 of 7 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.3)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)
Least Trusted Reviews
I really enjoyed reading this novella, which is saying a ... [Go to full review]
Nov 11, 2013
0%
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Unverified Purchaser
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Created on a high volume day
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Contains repetitive phrases (
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Overlapping Review History: reviewed 2 of 9 top products
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 19 Reviews)
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.1)
Analysis Details
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Rating Trend

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- 13%
- Created over 4 days
We counted 158 reviews for this product over the span of 1,812 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 4 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 20 reviews were created on just 4 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 4.7 while reviews from other days 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.
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Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 3 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:
- 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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Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers
10 of the 158 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, the discrepancy in ratings between the Take-Back Reviewers and reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
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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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2 reviews
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2 reviews
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33 reviews
(4.3/5)
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15 reviews
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10 reviews
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2 reviews
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7 reviews
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5 reviews
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7 reviews
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78 of the 158 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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Overlapping Review History

Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
23% also reviewed:
Cut & Run by Madeleine Urban
15% also reviewed:
Hot Head by Damon Suede
15% also reviewed:
Double Full (A Nice Guys Novel Book 1) by Kindle Alexander
14% also reviewed:
Broken Pieces by Riley Hart
14% also reviewed:
Full Disclosure (A Nice Guys Novel Book 2) by Kindle Alexander
13% also reviewed:
Try (Temptation Series) by Ella Frank
12% also reviewed:
Catch a Ghost (Hell or High Water) by SE Jakes
12% also reviewed:
The Backup Boyfriend (The Boyfriend Chronicles... by River Jaymes
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from the same brand
86 of the 158 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. While this is more than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between these reviewers and reviewers who have a more unique product review history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
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Reviewer Participation

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- 55%
- 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 87 reviewers (or 55%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass
Unverified Purchases

42 of the 158 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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- 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.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison 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 4.4.
4.3 Product's Average Ease Score
4.4 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass
Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters
34 of the 158 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.
2 of the 158 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.