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A Man Called Ove: A Novel
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL 
Reviewer Ease
Reviewer EaseFAIL Phrase Repetition
Phrase RepetitionWARN Deleted Reviews
Deleted ReviewsWARN Rating Trend
Rating TrendWARN Suspicious Reviewers
Suspicious ReviewersWARN Word Count Comparison
Word Count ComparisonWARN Reviewer Participation
Reviewer ParticipationPASS Unverified Purchases
Unverified PurchasesPASS Overlapping Review History
Overlapping Review HistoryPASS Brand Repeats
Brand RepeatsPASS Incentivized Reviews
Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
I enjoyed this book. It made me laugh and cry. ... [Go to full review]
Jun 15, 2016
50%
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Verified Purchaser -
Overrepresented word count (19 words) -
Contains repetitive phrases (
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Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted review; avg. rating: 2.0) -
Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products -
Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.6)
Least Trusted Reviews
Ove is one of a kind. Perfect grumpy old ... [Go to full review]
Oct 10, 2016
0%
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TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Created on a high volume day -
Overrepresented word count (15 words)
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Contains repetitive phrases (show)
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Take-Back Reviewer (3 deleted reviews; avg. rating: 5.0)
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Overlapping Review History: reviewed 3 of 9 top products
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.5)
Analysis Details
Fail 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 4.2. 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.
4.4 Product's Average Ease Score
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Fail Phrase Repetition
Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
230 of the 16,284 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 148 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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- 46%
- Created over 225 days
We counted 16,284 reviews for this product over the span of 1,602 days, an average of 10.2 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 22 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 225 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 7,533 reviews were created on just 225 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
1,181 of the 16,284 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 Word Count Comparison
Word Count Comparison
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- 44%
- 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 7,162 reviews (or 44%) are within an overrepresented word count group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented word count groups than we'd expect to see, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Warn Reviewer Participation
Reviewer Participation
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- 69%
- 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 11257 reviewers (or 69%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Unverified Purchases
Unverified Purchases
2,350 of the 16,284 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 Overlapping Review History
Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
8% also reviewed:
The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
7% also reviewed:
The Girl on the Train: A Novel by Paula Hawkins
6% also reviewed:
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel by Anthony Doerr
5% also reviewed:
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
4% also reviewed:
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (author)
4% also reviewed:
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Backman, Fredrik
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
4,487 of the 16,284 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 Brand Repeats
Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
437 of the 16,284 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 16,284 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, or check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.