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The Voice of Reason: A V.I.P. Pass to Enlightenment
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From Sonnen, Chael
This report was last updated 6/5/2017.
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Last Updated: Jun 5, 2017
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Suspicious Reviewers
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Phrase Repetition
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Reviewer Participation
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PASS
Rating Trend
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PASS
Unverified Purchases
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Word Count Comparison
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Overlapping Review History
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Reviewer Ease
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Brand Repeats
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Incentivized Reviews
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Deleted Reviews
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Most Trusted Reviews
I really enjoyed this book. I have been a fan ... [Go to full review]
Jun 3, 2012
100%
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Unverified Purchaser
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Overrepresented word count (76 words)
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Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.3)
Least Trusted Reviews
Great Purchase Thanks for the speedy delivery. i would purchase ... [Go to full review]
Dec 11, 2012
20%
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TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 5 Reviews)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)
Analysis Details
Fail
Suspicious Reviewers
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One-Hit Wonders
30 of the 157 reviewers have only reviewed this product. While this is more One-Hit Wonders than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the One-Hit Wonders and reviewers who have posted more than one review isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Take-Back Reviewers
2 of the 157 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.
Single-Day Reviewers
9 of the 157 reviewers have written multiple reviews but posted all of them on a single day. The Single-Day reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.9 while all other reviewers rated this product an average of 4.2. 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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Phrase Repetition
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Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
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23 of the 157 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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Reviewer Participation
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- 48%
- 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 75 reviewers (or 48%) are within an overrepresented participation group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented participation groups than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between reviewers in an overrepresented participation groups and all other reviewers isn’t significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
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Rating Trend
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- 4%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 157 reviews for this product over the span of 1,779 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 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 6 reviews were created on just 1 day. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass
Unverified Purchases
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41 of the 157 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.
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Word Count Comparison
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- 18%
- 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 29 reviews (or 18%) 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
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Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
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1% also reviewed:
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1% also reviewed:
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1% also reviewed:
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1% also reviewed:
BSN Syntha-6 Protein Powder, 5 Pound by BSN Sports
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15 of the 157 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
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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 4.2, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.
4.2 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass
Brand Repeats
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Brand Repeaters
We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.
Pass
Incentivized Reviews
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On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
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- 0%
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
We didn't detect any reviews that used language indicating they were incentivized.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive 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.
Pass
Deleted Reviews
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- 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.