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Note: While Amazon.com claims 2,632 Ratings, we counted 2,635 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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Phrase Repetition
Phrase RepetitionWARN Deleted Reviews
Deleted ReviewsWARN Rating Trend
Rating TrendWARN Suspicious Reviewers
Suspicious ReviewersWARN Reviewer Participation
Reviewer ParticipationPASS Unverified Purchases
Unverified PurchasesPASS Word Count Comparison
Word Count ComparisonPASS Overlapping Review History
Overlapping Review HistoryPASS Reviewer Ease
Reviewer EasePASS Brand Repeats
Brand RepeatsPASS Incentivized Reviews
Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
This was a good idea but you can tell that ... [Go to full review]
Apr 13, 2014
100%
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Unverified Purchaser
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.2)
Verified Purchaser
Least Trusted Reviews
Great summary of the important events of one year in ... [Go to full review]
Mar 19, 2014
5%
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Unverified Purchaser
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Fail Phrase Repetition
Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
63 of the 2,635 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.7 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases 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 Deleted Reviews
Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 41 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.6. 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.
4.6 average rating of deleted reviews
Warn Rating Trend
Rating Trend
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- 21%
- Created over 65 days
We counted 2,635 reviews for this product over the span of 2,257 days, an average of 1.2 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 6 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 65 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 545 reviews were created on just 65 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
666 of the 2,635 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, the discrepancy in ratings between the Take-Back Reviewers and reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Reviewer Participation
Reviewer Participation
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- 61%
- 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 1605 reviewers (or 61%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Unverified Purchases
Unverified Purchases
478 of the 2,635 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 Word Count Comparison
Word Count Comparison
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- 24%
- 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 644 reviews (or 24%) 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.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
5% also reviewed:
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4% also reviewed:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
4% also reviewed:
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
4% also reviewed:
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their... by Daniel James Brown
3% also reviewed:
Gone Girl: A Novel by Julia Whelan
3% also reviewed:
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
3% also reviewed:
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
3% also reviewed:
Mr. Mercedes: A Novel (1) (The Bill Hodges... by Stephen King
3% also reviewed:
The Martian: Classroom Edition: A Novel by Andy Weir
522 of the 2,635 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
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 4.3.
4.3 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
340 of the 2,635 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
Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
1 of the 2,635 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. 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 Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.