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A Man Called Ove: A Novel
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From Backman, Fredrik
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 17,041 Ratings, we counted 17,077 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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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
Hilarious story, similar to my writing style and totally believable. ... [Go to full review]
Mar 11, 2016
100%
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Verified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (3 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 3.7) -
Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.2)
Least Trusted Reviews
Very touching book! Made me laugh and cry! [Go to full review]
Feb 27, 2016
4%
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TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Contains repetitive phrases (
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Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 4.0)
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 16 Reviews) -
Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.9)
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.
241 of the 17,077 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.8 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 143 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.5. 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.
4.5 average rating of deleted reviews
Warn Rating Trend
Rating Trend
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- 50%
- Created over 273 days
We counted 17,077 reviews for this product over the span of 2,137 days, an average of 8.0 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 19 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 273 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 8,549 reviews were created on just 273 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
4,607 of the 17,077 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 Participation
Reviewer Participation
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- 39%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 1 participation group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 6596 reviewers (or 39%) are within an overrepresented participation group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented participation groups than we'd expect to see, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Pass Unverified Purchases
Unverified Purchases
2,580 of the 17,077 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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- 0%
- Have an overrepresented word count
We didn't find any review word count groups that had a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see in this category.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
6% also reviewed:
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6% also reviewed:
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4% also reviewed:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (author)
4% also reviewed:
A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles
4% also reviewed:
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
3% also reviewed:
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their... by Daniel James Brown
3% also reviewed:
Big Little Lies (Movie Tie-In) by Liane Moriarty
3% also reviewed:
Gone Girl: A Novel by Julia Whelan
3% also reviewed:
Werkryt MFi Certified iPhone Charger Lightning... by Werkryt
4,133 of the 17,077 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 4.4, 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 Brand Repeats
Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
909 of the 17,077 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.
9 of the 17,077 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.