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The Sinner: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
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Amazon Reviews for  The Sinner: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Rating:
1,165 Ratings
1,037 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
8% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Dec 8, 2020
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 1,165 Ratings, we counted 1,037 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

Report Card

Pass Overall Grade
FAIL Word Count Comparison
FAIL Phrase Repetition
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Brand Repeats
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

This was my first go at this series. It was ... [Go to full review]
Feb 3, 2018      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.7)


Least Trusted Reviews

Like this mystery really well. If you like Rizzoli and ... [Go to full review]
Aug 17, 2014      
0% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Overrepresented word count (16 words)
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Brand Repeater (2 of 37 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.0)
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.5)


Analysis Details

Fail Word Count Comparison

  • 24%
  • 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 251 reviews (or 24%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.6, 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 reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.6
4.4


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

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:
49 reviews
(4.3/5)
16 reviews
(4.3/5)
125 reviews
(4.5/5)
59 reviews
(4.6/5)
28 reviews
(4.7/5)
10 reviews
(4.9/5)
9 reviews
(4.1/5)
26 reviews
(4.4/5)
19 reviews
(4.8/5)
17 reviews
(4.5/5)
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Common Phrases in Titles:
21 reviews
(4.8/5)
39 reviews
(4.6/5)
19 reviews
(4.7/5)


173 of the 1,037 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.7 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.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.7
4.4


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 6 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.8. 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:
  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.

4.8 average rating of deleted reviews

4.8


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Warn Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


496 of the 1,037 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Repeaters and non-repeaters isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


4.5
4.4


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

Warn Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers


398 of the 1,037 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.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.4
4.5


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Pass Rating Trend

  • 5%
  • Created over 12 days

We counted 1,037 reviews for this product over the span of 6,282 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 12 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 51 reviews were created on just 12 days. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.5
4.5


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

396 of the 1,037 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.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.3
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.

Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:

4% also reviewed:
Gone Girl: A Novel by Julia Whelan

4% also reviewed:
The Liar by Nora Roberts

Does not include products
from the same brand


419 of the 1,037 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


4.5
4.4


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Reviewer Participation

  • 0%
  • From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We didn't find any participation groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Reviewer Participation 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 4.3.

4.3 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.3
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


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.

  • 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.