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From Ira Levin
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Last Updated: Jun 6, 2018
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 227 Ratings, we counted 226 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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FAIL
Unverified Purchases

FAIL
Suspicious Reviewers

FAIL
Phrase Repetition

WARN
Rating Trend

WARN
Reviewer Participation

PASS
Word Count Comparison

PASS
Overlapping Review History

PASS
Reviewer Ease

PASS
Brand Repeats

PASS
Incentivized Reviews

PASS
Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
A very thought provoking book. Disturbing and frightening. [Go to full review]
Aug 26, 2016
100%
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Verified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.0)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.8)
Least Trusted Reviews
I did not purchase "The Stepford Wives", by Ira Levin, ... [Go to full review]
Apr 29, 2016
0%
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Unverified Purchaser
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Created on a high volume day
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Take-Back Reviewer (139 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.4)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)
Analysis Details
Fail
Unverified Purchases

121 of the 226 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.4 while the verified purchasers have 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.
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.
Fail
Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers
50 of the 226 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
Phrase Repetition

Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
Common Phrases in Titles:
6 reviews
2 reviews
7 reviews
57 of the 226 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.5 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases 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.
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Rating Trend

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- 17%
- Created over 18 days
We counted 226 reviews for this product over the span of 7,454 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 18 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 39 reviews were created on just 18 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
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Reviewer Participation

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- 59%
- 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 133 reviewers (or 59%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
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
Overlapping Review History

Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
30% also reviewed:
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
27% also reviewed:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
21% also reviewed:
Dracula by Bram Stoker
19% also reviewed:
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games Trilogy, Book 1) by Suzanne Collins
19% also reviewed:
Harry Potter Complete Book Series Special Edition... by Unbranded
16% also reviewed:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
16% also reviewed:
A Princess of Mars (Illustrated) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
10% also reviewed:
On the Beach by Shute, Nevil
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from the same brand
59 of the 226 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 4.1, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.
4.1 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass
Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters
9 of the 226 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.
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:
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.