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This Desert Life
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Amazon Reviews for  This Desert Life
Rating:
225 Ratings
221 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
88% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: May 19, 2020
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 225 Ratings, we counted 221 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

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Report Card

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

Most Trusted Reviews

This is the music of my 20's, and listening to ... [Go to full review]
Dec 20, 2012      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (6 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.5)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.9)


Least Trusted Reviews

I already knew the song "Colorblind" from the Cruel Intentions ... [Go to full review]
Dec 1, 1999      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Overrepresented word count (73 words)
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Never-Verified Reviewer
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 8 Reviews)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)


Analysis Details

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


41 of the 221 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.

from one-hit wonders

from reviewers with more than one review


4.4
4.3


Never-Verified Reviewers


152 of the 221 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. This is an excessively large percentage of Never-Verified Reviewers which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from never-verified reviewers

from reviewers with at least one verified purchase review


4.2
4.5


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Warn Rating Trend

  • 33%
  • Created over 29 days

We counted 221 reviews for this product over the span of 7,060 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 1 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 29 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 72 reviews were created on just 29 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.2
4.4


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn Unverified Purchases

194 of the 221 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. This is an excessively large percentage of unverified purchases and it may indicate unnatural reviews.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.3
4.4


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 Word Count Comparison

  • 56%
  • 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 2 groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 123 reviews (or 56%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is an excessively high number of reviews in overrepresented word count groups.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.3
4.3


Read more about our Word Count Comparison 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:
29 reviews
(4.6/5)
21 reviews
(4.2/5)
34 reviews
(4.3/5)
25 reviews
(4.4/5)
11 reviews
(4.3/5)
21 reviews
(4.2/5)
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Common Phrases in Titles:
14 reviews
(4.6/5)
2 reviews
(3.5/5)
3 reviews
(4.7/5)
4 reviews
(4.5/5)
2 reviews
(4.5/5)
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102 of the 221 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


4.4
4.3


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 69%
  • 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 152 reviewers (or 69%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.3
4.4


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

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

12% also reviewed:
Hard Candy by Counting Crows

5% also reviewed:
Elton John by Elton John

5% also reviewed:
Mad Season by MUSIC

5% also reviewed:
Ten by Pearl Jam

Does not include products
from the same brand


61 of the 221 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


4.3
4.3


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 4.3, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.4.

4.3 Product's Average Ease Score

4.4 Category's Average Ease Score


4.3
4.4


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


14 of the 221 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


4.4
4.3


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.

Pass Deleted Reviews
  • 0
  • 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:
  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.