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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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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%
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- 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%
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- 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.
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.
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.
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
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Fail Reviewer Participation
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- 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.
Warn Rating Trend
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- 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.
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.
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 Reviews:
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4 reviews
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2 reviews
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12 reviews
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6 reviews
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7 reviews
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2 reviews
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2 reviews
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6 reviews
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4 reviews
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7 reviews
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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.
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 Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
2% also reviewed:
Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful... by Jennifer Garvey Berger
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.
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:
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.