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Deadly Assets (Badge of Honor Book 12)
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From W.E.B. Griffin
This report was last updated 11/12/2016.
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Last Updated: Nov 12, 2016
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 398 Ratings, we counted 297 Reviews available on their site.
Note: While we've examined all 297 reviews, our reviewer analysis is based on a sample of 45 reviewers.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
Note: While we've examined all 297 reviews, our reviewer analysis is based on a sample of 45 reviewers.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
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Pass Overall Grade
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Rating Trend

FAIL
Unverified Purchases

FAIL
Word Count Comparison

WARN
Deleted Reviews

WARN
Suspicious Reviewers

WARN
Reviewer Ease

PASS
Phrase Repetition

PASS
Overlapping Review History

PASS
Reviewer Participation

PASS
Brand Repeats

PASS
Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
Similar to his other books.....lots of action but tends to ... [Go to full review]
Aug 21, 2016
100%
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Verified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
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Brand Repeater (3 of 36 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 3.3)
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.9)
Least Trusted Reviews
I normally like Griffin's work, particularly his books about Philadelphia ... [Go to full review]
Jan 4, 2016 1 of 1 found this helpful.
0%
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Unverified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (210 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.4)
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Brand Repeater (4 of 2175 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 3.5)
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Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)
Analysis Details
Fail
Rating Trend

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- 4%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 297 reviews for this product over the span of 464 days, an average of 0.6 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 5 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 12 reviews were created on just 1 day. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 4.1 while reviews from other days have rated this product an average of 3.2. 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.
Fail
Unverified Purchases

32 of the 297 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 2.3 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 3.4. 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
Word Count Comparison

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- 42%
- 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 125 reviews (or 42%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 3.8, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 2.9. 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 5 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 3.2. 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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Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers
1 of a random sample of 45 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
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. 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
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass
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:
8 reviews
Common Phrases in Titles:
6 reviews
5 of the 297 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:
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15 of a random sample of 45 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 Participation

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- 0%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We didn't find any participation groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.
Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.
Pass
Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters
10 of a random sample of 45 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.