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Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust
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Amazon Reviews for  Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust
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104 Ratings
104 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
90% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Incentivized Reviews
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Reviewer Ease
FAIL Reviewer Participation
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Phrase Repetition
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

enjoyed the material and writing style. [Go to full review]
Feb 15, 2019      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.1)


Least Trusted Reviews

Adam Kahane’s latest book deepens his work in very important ... [Go to full review]
Jun 6, 2017      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 8 Reviews)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 2.1)


Analysis Details

Fail 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 104 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. Incentivized reviews have rated this product an average of 3.0 while reviews that were not incentivized rated this product an average of 4.8. 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.

from incentivized reviews

from non-incentivized reviews


3.0
4.8


Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


65 of the 104 reviewers have only reviewed this product. This is an excessively large percentage of One-Hit Wonders which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from one-hit wonders

from reviewers with more than one review


4.8
4.7


Never-Verified Reviewers


68 of the 104 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. This is an excessively large percentage of Never-Verified Reviewers which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from never-verified reviewers

from reviewers with at least one verified purchase review


4.8
4.7


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers 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 4.7, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 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.

4.7 Product's Average Ease Score

4.4 Category's Average Ease Score


4.7
4.4


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Fail Reviewer Participation

  • 85%
  • 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 88 reviewers (or 85%) 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 4.4. 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.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.8
4.4


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Warn Rating Trend

  • 65%
  • Created over 3 days

We counted 104 reviews for this product over the span of 629 days, an average of 0.2 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 3 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 3 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 68 reviews were created on just 3 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.8
4.7


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn Unverified Purchases

87 of the 104 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. This is an excessively large percentage of unverified purchases and it may indicate unnatural reviews.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.8
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.

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 Titles:
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
3 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(4.5/5)
5 reviews
(5.0/5)
4 reviews
(5.0/5)
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70 of the 104 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.8
4.8


Read more about our Phrase Repetition 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:



3 of the 104 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


4.3
4.8


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters

We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.

Pass Deleted Reviews
  • 0
  • 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:
  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.