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The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
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From Helen Russell
This report was last updated 7/19/2021.
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 2,020 Ratings, we counted 565 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".
Report Card
Pass Overall Grade
FAIL
Word Count Comparison
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Phrase Repetition
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WARN
Deleted Reviews
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WARN
Suspicious Reviewers
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WARN
Reviewer Participation
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PASS
Rating Trend
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PASS
Unverified Purchases
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PASS
Overlapping Review History
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PASS
Reviewer Ease
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PASS
Brand Repeats
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Incentivized Reviews
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Most Trusted Reviews
Great book. Informative and well-researched, but also readable and entertaining. ... [Go to full review]
Jan 4, 2019
100%
TRUST
TRUST
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Unverified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (4 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.8)
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Overlapping Review History: reviewed 2 of 9 top products
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.3)
Least Trusted Reviews
Brilliant book!! Hilarious and yet nudges you to re-evaluate how ... [Go to full review]
Oct 7, 2017
0%
TRUST
TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Overrepresented word count (32 words)
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Contains repetitive phrases (
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Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 28 Reviews)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.9)
Analysis Details
Fail
Word Count Comparison
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- 23%
- 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 1 group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 130 reviews (or 23%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.6, while all other reviews have 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.
Fail
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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4 reviews
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25 reviews
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21 reviews
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6 reviews
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6 reviews
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5 reviews
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7 reviews
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8 reviews
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6 reviews
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Common Phrases in Titles:
16 reviews
(4.5/5)
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39 of the 565 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 4.5. 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
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We discovered a total of 7 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.1. 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.
Warn
Suspicious Reviewers
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Take-Back Reviewers
201 of the 565 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
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- 51%
- 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 286 reviewers (or 51%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass
Rating Trend
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- 1%
- Created over 1 day
We counted 565 reviews for this product over the span of 2,349 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 1 day exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 4 reviews were created on just 1 day. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass
Unverified Purchases
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150 of the 565 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
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Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
2% also reviewed:
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The... by Marie Kondo
2% also reviewed:
Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel by Maria Semple
2% also reviewed:
The Rosie Project: A Novel by Graeme Simsion
2% also reviewed:
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
2% also reviewed:
Wild (Movie Tie-in Edition): From Lost to Found... by Cheryl Strayed
2% also reviewed:
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel by Gabrielle Zevin
2% also reviewed:
The Nightingale: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
2% also reviewed:
The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy... by Meik Wiking
63 of the 565 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 4.3, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.4.
4.3 Product's Average Ease Score
4.4 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass
Brand Repeats
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Brand Repeaters
We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.
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.