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White Sands: An Orbs Prequel
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From Nicholas Sansbury Smith
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Last Updated: Jul 18, 2017
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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Rating Trend
FAIL Brand Repeats
FAIL Reviewer Ease
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Phrase Repetition
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Can't wait to read more by this Author! [Go to full review]
Feb 9, 2015
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.0)
- Brand Repeater (2 of 14 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.2)
Least Trusted Reviews
This is a short story about Jeff and David. The ... [Go to full review]
Oct 13, 2014
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Brand Repeater (13 of 29 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.9)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 29 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.9)
Analysis Details
Fail Rating Trend
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- 19%
- Created over 3 days
We counted 80 reviews for this product over the span of 979 days, an average of 0.1 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 2 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 3 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 15 reviews were created on just 3 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 5.0 while reviews from other days have rated this product an average of 4.7. 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 Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
25 of the 80 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. While this is more Brand Repeaters than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Repeaters and non-repeaters isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Brand Loyalists
5 of the 80 reviewers have reviewed multiple products but half or more of their reviews are for this brand. This is an excessively large percentage of Brand Loyalists which may indicate unnatural reviews.
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 4.6, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 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.
4.6 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
7 of the 80 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, the discrepancy in ratings between the Take-Back Reviewers and reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
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32 of the 80 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Pass Unverified Purchases
12 of the 80 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
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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
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
13% also reviewed:
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10% also reviewed:
Silicon Man (Silicon Series Book 1) by William Massa
9% also reviewed:
The Martian: Classroom Edition: A Novel by Andy Weir
9% also reviewed:
Nomad: A Thriller (The New Earth Series Book 1) by Matthew Mather
8% also reviewed:
Wool by Hugh Howey
8% also reviewed:
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Vol 1 (Escaping the Dead):... by W. J. Lundy
6% also reviewed:
Sanctuary: A Postapocalyptic Novel (The New World... by G. Michael Hopf
6% also reviewed:
Earth Alone (Earthrise Book 1) by Daniel Arenson
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from the same brand
38 of the 80 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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- 21%
- 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 17 reviewers (or 21%) are within an overrepresented participation group. 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.
1 of the 80 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.
Pass Deleted Reviews
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- Reviews have been deleted
We have not discovered any deleted reviews for this product.
There are a few limitations to keep in mind regarding the Deleted Reviews test:
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.