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Dancing (An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, eNovella) (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)
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From Laurell K. Hamilton
This report was last updated 8/27/2017.
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Last Updated: Aug 27, 2017
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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Unverified Purchases
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Reviewer Ease
FAIL Word Count Comparison
FAIL Phrase Repetition
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Brand Repeats
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
I love the Anita Blake series and this is a ... [Go to full review]
Feb 24, 2016
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 2.0)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.6)
Least Trusted Reviews
This is not a novella. It's a short story. While ... [Go to full review]
Aug 30, 2016
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Never-Verified Reviewer
- Brand Repeater (2 of 6 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 2.5)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 6 Reviews)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.2)
Analysis Details
Fail Unverified Purchases
62 of the 589 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 3.4 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.3. 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
Never-Verified Reviewers
11 of the 589 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. The Never-Verified Reviewers have rated this product an average of 3.2 while the reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review 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.
Take-Back Reviewers
18 of the 589 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.
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 4.3, 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.
4.3 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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- 59%
- 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 349 reviews (or 59%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.3, 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.
Fail Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
62 of the 589 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 4.1. 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.
Warn Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 2 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 5. 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.
Warn Rating Trend
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- 15%
- Created over 10 days
We counted 589 reviews for this product over the span of 1,435 days, an average of 0.4 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 4 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 10 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 89 reviews were created on just 10 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Brand Repeats
Brand Loyalists
18 of the 589 reviewers have reviewed multiple products but half or more of their reviews are for this brand. While this is more Brand Loyalists than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 72%
- 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 427 reviewers (or 72%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
14% also reviewed:
Affliction (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter) by Laurell K. Hamilton
13% also reviewed:
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
12% also reviewed:
Jason: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel by Hamilton, Laurell K.
10% also reviewed:
Emma: A Modern Retelling by Smith, Alexander Mccall
6% also reviewed:
Kiss the Dead (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter) by Brand: Berkley Books
4% also reviewed:
Wuthering Heights by Bronte, Emily/ Peters, Donada (NRT)
4% also reviewed:
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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from the same brand
from the same brand
156 of the 589 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 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.