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Note: While Amazon.com claims 1,076 Ratings, we counted 1,083 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Reviewer Participation
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Unverified Purchases
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Phrase Repetition
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Highly enjoyed this book. [Go to full review]
Aug 27, 2017
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.8)
Least Trusted Reviews
Just finished this book and it was fantastic! It was ... [Go to full review]
Oct 14, 2008
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 4 Reviews)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.3)
Analysis Details
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
118 of the 1,083 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.
Never-Verified Reviewers
240 of the 1,083 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. While this is more Never-Verified Reviewers than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Take-Back Reviewers
298 of the 1,083 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.
Fail Reviewer Participation
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- 58%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 2 participation groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 632 reviewers (or 58%) are within an overrepresented participation group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.4, while all other reviews have 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.
Warn Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 49 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.5. 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 Unverified Purchases
572 of the 1,083 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. While this is a higher percentage of unverified purchases than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
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 Rating Trend
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- 4%
- Created over 7 days
We counted 1,083 reviews for this product over the span of 4,292 days, an average of 0.3 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 7 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 38 reviews were created on just 7 days. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
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 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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16 reviews
(4.3/5)
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30 reviews
(4.5/5)
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82 reviews
(3.9/5)
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69 reviews
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52 reviews
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15 reviews
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15 reviews
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49 reviews
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27 reviews
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33 reviews
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(4.3/5)
Common Phrases in Titles:
14 reviews
(4.7/5)
(4.7/5)
122 of the 1,083 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. 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
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
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3% also reviewed:
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3% also reviewed:
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies... by Weta
3% also reviewed:
The Salmon of Doubt (Hitchhiker's Guide... by Douglas Adams
2% also reviewed:
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2% also reviewed:
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2% also reviewed:
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from the same brand
from the same brand
126 of the 1,083 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 4.4.
4.2 Product's Average Ease Score
4.4 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
73 of the 1,083 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
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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- 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.