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Batman Vol. 2: The City of Owls (Batman Graphic Novel)
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Last Updated: Jun 2, 2018
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL
Brand Repeats

FAIL
Reviewer Ease

FAIL
Word Count Comparison

WARN
Suspicious Reviewers

WARN
Phrase Repetition

WARN
Overlapping Review History

WARN
Reviewer Participation

PASS
Rating Trend

PASS
Unverified Purchases

PASS
Incentivized Reviews

PASS
Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
his book continues where the Court of Owls left off ... [Go to full review]
Jul 25, 2017
100%
TRUST
TRUST
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Unverified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (4 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.0)
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.1)
Least Trusted Reviews
Great story by Snyder, he understands the character, but the ... [Go to full review]
Mar 31, 2015
0%
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TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Overrepresented word count (34 words)
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Contains repetitive phrases (
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Brand Loyalist (2 of 4 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.5)
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Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 4 Reviews)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.5)
Analysis Details
Fail
Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters
294 of the 489 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.
Brand Loyalists
28 of the 489 reviewers have reviewed multiple products but half or more of their reviews are for this brand. This is an excessively large percentage of Brand Loyalists which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Fail
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 4.4, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 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.
4.4 Product's Average Ease Score
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Fail
Word Count Comparison

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- 41%
- 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 199 reviews (or 41%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.7, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 4.6. 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
Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers
47 of the 489 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. While this is more Take-Back Reviewers 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.
Common Phrases in Reviews:
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64 of the 489 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Warn
Overlapping Review History

Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
45% also reviewed:
Batman Vol. 1: The Court of Owls (The New 52) by DC Comics
30% also reviewed:
Batman Vol. 3: Death of the Family (The New 52) by DC Comics
11% also reviewed:
Batman Vol. 5: Zero Year - Dark City (The New 52) by DC Comics
10% also reviewed:
Batman: Hush Unwrapped Deluxe by DC Comics
10% also reviewed:
Batman: Year One by Frank Miller
10% also reviewed:
The Walking Dead, Vol. 15: We Find Ourselves by Robert Kirkman
9% also reviewed:
Batman: The Killing Joke, Deluxe Edition by DC Comics
9% also reviewed:
Justice League, Vol. 1: Origin (The New 52) by DC Comics
297 of the 489 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. While this is more than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between these reviewers and reviewers who have a more unique product review history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn
Reviewer Participation

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- 67%
- 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 329 reviewers (or 67%) 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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- 1%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 489 reviews for this product over the span of 1,879 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 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 4 reviews were created on just 1 day. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass
Unverified Purchases

78 of the 489 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
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

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- 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.