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The World Without Us
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Amazon Reviews for  The World Without Us
Rating:
510 Ratings
514 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
47% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Mar 13, 2019
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 510 Ratings, we counted 514 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

Report Card

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

Most Trusted Reviews

Recommended reading ... add to your list. [Go to full review]
Nov 17, 2014      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.5)


Least Trusted Reviews

What if humans were extinct? Everything that we have created ... [Go to full review]
Mar 8, 2008      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Never-Verified Reviewer
  • Single-Day Reviewer (posted all reviews on Mar 8, 2008)
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 3 Reviews)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.3)


Analysis Details

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


62 of the 514 reviewers have only reviewed this product. While this is more One-Hit Wonders than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from one-hit wonders

from reviewers with more than one review


4.1
4.1


Take-Back Reviewers


167 of the 514 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.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.1
4.2


Single-Day Reviewers


12 of the 514 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 4.8 while all other reviewers rated this product an average of 4.1. 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 single-day reviewers

from non-single-day reviewers


4.8
4.1


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Fail Reviewer Participation

  • 51%
  • 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 263 reviewers (or 51%) are within an overrepresented participation group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.2, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 4.0. 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 reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.2
4.0


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Warn Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 1 deleted Review for this product, with an average rating of 4. 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.

4.0 average rating of deleted reviews

4.0


Show distribution of deleted reviews

Warn Rating Trend

  • 8%
  • Created over 26 days

We counted 514 reviews for this product over the span of 4,250 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 26 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 42 reviews were created on just 26 days. Although any days with a larger number of reviews than expected is suspicious, the discrepancy in ratings from reviews created on these high volume days and reviews created on other days isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.2
4.1


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn Unverified Purchases

286 of the 514 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.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.1
4.2


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:
101 reviews
(4.0/5)
97 reviews
33 reviews
(3.9/5)
27 reviews
21 reviews
(3.7/5)
31 reviews
(4.0/5)
21 reviews
21 reviews
17 reviews
(4.5/5)
17 reviews
(3.9/5)
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Common Phrases in Titles:
8 reviews
(3.8/5)
8 reviews
8 reviews
(4.6/5)
8 reviews
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163 of the 514 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.1
4.1


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Pass Word Count Comparison

  • 0%
  • 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 0 reviews (or 0%) 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.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

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

7% also reviewed:
The Road by Vintage Books



107 of the 514 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


4.0
4.2


Read more about our Overlapping Review History 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 4.1, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.2.

4.1 Product's Average Ease Score

4.2 Category's Average Ease Score


4.1
4.2


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


21 of the 514 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.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


4.3
4.1


Read more about our Brand Repeats 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.