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FAIL
Phrase Repetition
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Deleted Reviews
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Rating Trend
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Suspicious Reviewers
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Reviewer Participation
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Unverified Purchases
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Word Count Comparison
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Overlapping Review History
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Reviewer Ease
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Brand Repeats
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Incentivized Reviews
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Most Trusted Reviews
Excellent reading very informative excellent research. [Go to full review]
Nov 16, 2017
100%
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Verified Purchaser
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.7)
Least Trusted Reviews
This book takes the complex world of our health care ... [Go to full review]
Apr 3, 2015
35%
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TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Created on a high volume day
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 20 Reviews)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)
Analysis Details
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Phrase Repetition
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Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
Common Phrases in Reviews:
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2 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
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45 reviews
(4.6/5)
(4.6/5)
25 reviews
(4.4/5)
(4.4/5)
8 reviews
(4.9/5)
(4.9/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
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2 reviews
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21 reviews
(4.8/5)
(4.8/5)
10 reviews
(4.6/5)
(4.6/5)
8 reviews
(4.0/5)
(4.0/5)
95 of the 320 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.6 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.4. 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.
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Deleted Reviews
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We discovered a total of 5 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.4. 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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- 20%
- Created over 13 days
We counted 320 reviews for this product over the span of 1,297 days, an average of 0.2 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 13 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 64 reviews were created on just 13 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
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Suspicious Reviewers
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Take-Back Reviewers
30 of the 320 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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- 76%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 3 participation groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 244 reviewers (or 76%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
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Unverified Purchases
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41 of the 320 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.
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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.
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Overlapping Review History
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Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
5% also reviewed:
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
5% also reviewed:
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the... by Jane Mayer
4% also reviewed:
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel by Anthony Doerr
4% also reviewed:
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
4% also reviewed:
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
4% also reviewed:
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Piketty, Thomas
3% also reviewed:
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their... by Daniel James Brown
3% also reviewed:
The Girl on the Train: A Novel by Paula Hawkins
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from the same brand
from the same brand
68 of the 320 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
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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 4.2, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.3.
4.2 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
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Brand Repeats
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Brand Repeaters
1 of the 320 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
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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.