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The Monticello Project: The story of a construction project infected with corruption, murder and...
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Last Updated: May 25, 2017
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FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Incentivized Reviews
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Overlapping Review History
PASS Rating Trend
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Reviewer Participation
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
The author uses His extensive experience in construction management as ... [Go to full review]
Jul 6, 2015
100%
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- Verified Purchaser
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.5)
Least Trusted Reviews
This review is based on a free copy received from ... [Go to full review]
Mar 3, 2015 1 of 1 found this helpful.
10%
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- Unverified Purchaser
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Take-Back Reviewer (61 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.2)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 5 of 9 top products
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.1)
Analysis Details
Fail Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
3 of the 8 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. This is an excessively large percentage of Take-Back Reviewers which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Warn Unverified Purchases
6 of the 8 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. While this is a higher percentage of unverified purchases than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
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.
Warn Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
2 of the 8 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is an excessively large percentage of incentivized reviews which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
Warn Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
5 of the 8 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Warn Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
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38% also reviewed:
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38% also reviewed:
The Mountain Place of Knowledge: Book I in the... by Marshall Chamberlain
38% also reviewed:
The Deepest Dark by Joan Hall Hovey
38% also reviewed:
The Flip by Michael Phillip Cash
38% also reviewed:
The Wachuga Project by Douglas E. Wolfert
38% also reviewed:
The Legend of Waterhole Branch by Lucas R. Wright
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5 of the 8 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. While this is more than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Pass Rating Trend
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- Created on high-volume days
We counted 8 reviews for this product over the span of 227 days, an average of 0.0 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 1 or fewer reviews on any given day. We didn't find any days exceeding this threshold.
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Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Pass Word Count Comparison
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- 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 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 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.
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4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
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Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.
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.