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Paladin of Souls (Chalion Book 2)
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From Lois McMaster Bujold
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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Brand Repeats
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
I'm rounding up about half a star.This book, second in ... [Go to full review]
Sep 28, 2017
100%
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- Unverified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Brand Repeater (4 of 469 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.5)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 2 of 9 top products
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.3)
Least Trusted Reviews
Lois McMaster Bujold is already fairly famous in the science ... [Go to full review]
Aug 22, 2005
45%
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TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Brand Repeater (2 of 19 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 19 Reviews)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.2)
Analysis Details
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
38 of the 247 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. This is an excessively large percentage of Take-Back Reviewers which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Warn Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 8 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.
Warn Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
116 of the 247 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Warn Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
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93 of the 247 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 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 141 reviewers (or 58%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Rating Trend
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- Created on high-volume days
We counted 247 reviews for this product over the span of 5,371 days, an average of 0.0 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. We didn't find any days exceeding this threshold.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Pass Unverified Purchases
97 of the 247 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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- 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:
33% also reviewed:
The Curse of Chalion by HarperTorch
18% also reviewed:
The Hallowed Hunt (Chalion series) by Bujold, Lois McMaster
10% also reviewed:
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games Trilogy, Book 1) by Suzanne Collins
9% also reviewed:
American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A... by Neil Gaiman
8% also reviewed:
Fool's Fate (The Tawny Man, Book 3) by Robin Hobb
8% also reviewed:
The Martian: Classroom Edition: A Novel by Andy Weir
7% also reviewed:
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
7% also reviewed:
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Bloomsbury USA
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119 of the 247 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
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.
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4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
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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.
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- 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.