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The Sugar Men - A Story of Holocaust Echoes
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From Ray Kingfisher
This report was last updated 9/12/2019.
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 587 Ratings, we counted 597 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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Pass Overall Grade
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Brand Repeats

FAIL
Word Count Comparison

WARN
Deleted Reviews

WARN
Rating Trend

WARN
Suspicious Reviewers

WARN
Reviewer Participation

PASS
Unverified Purchases

PASS
Phrase Repetition

PASS
Overlapping Review History

PASS
Reviewer Ease

PASS
Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
There was nothing to dislike, it was a touching story ... [Go to full review]
Apr 17, 2019
100%
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Verified Purchaser
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.7)
Least Trusted Reviews
I have read a lot of books about the holocaust. ... [Go to full review]
Apr 22, 2017
0%
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Verified Purchaser
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Created on a high volume day
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Overrepresented word count (55 words)
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Brand Monogamist (140 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.6)
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 11 Reviews)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.5)
Analysis Details
Fail
Brand Repeats

Brand Monogamists
91 of the 597 reviewers have reviewed multiple products, but only for this brand. This is an excessively large percentage of Brand Monogamists which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Fail
Word Count Comparison

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- 45%
- 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 268 reviews (or 45%) 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 4.5. 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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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.
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Rating Trend

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- 12%
- Created over 17 days
We counted 597 reviews for this product over the span of 2,161 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 17 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 73 reviews were created on just 17 days. Although any days with a larger number of reviews than expected is suspicious, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
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Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers
152 of the 597 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.
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Reviewer Participation

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- 55%
- 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 328 reviewers (or 55%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass
Unverified Purchases

248 of the 597 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
Phrase Repetition

Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
70 of the 597 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. 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

Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
11% also reviewed:
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7% also reviewed:
The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
7% also reviewed:
Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
7% also reviewed:
From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon
5% also reviewed:
Maude by Donna Foley Mabry
5% also reviewed:
War Brides by Helen Bryan
5% also reviewed:
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Broken Angels by Gemma Liviero
5% also reviewed:
Lilac Girls: A Novel by Martha Hall Kelly
196 of the 597 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 4.4, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.
4.4 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease 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.
4 of the 597 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.