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Grit: How to Keep Going When You Want to Give Up
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Amazon Reviews for  Grit: How to Keep Going When You Want to Give Up
Rating:
116 Ratings
116 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
46% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Warn Overall Grade
FAIL Brand Repeats
FAIL Reviewer Participation
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Reviewer Ease
WARN Phrase Repetition
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

Some advice was pretty valuable but left me wanting more ... [Go to full review]
Aug 10, 2017      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (33 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.9)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)


Least Trusted Reviews

Simple and to the point. [Go to full review]
May 27, 2016      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Never-Verified Reviewer
  • Brand Loyalist (2 of 3 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 3 Reviews)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)


Analysis Details

Fail Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


48 of the 116 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.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


4.7
4.5


Brand Loyalists


17 of the 116 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.

from Brand Loyalists

from Non-Loyalists


4.6
4.6


Brand Monogamists


9 of the 116 reviewers have reviewed multiple products, but only for this brand. This is an excessively large percentage of Brand Monogamists which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from Brand Monogamists

from Non-Monogamists


4.3
4.6


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

Fail Reviewer Participation

  • 46%
  • 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 53 reviewers (or 46%) are within an overrepresented participation group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.7, while all other reviews have 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.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.7
4.5


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Warn Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 4 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 4.8. 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:
  1. 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.
  2. We have no information on reviews that were never published in the first place.
  3. 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.
Read more about our Deleted Reviews test.

4.8 average rating of deleted reviews

4.8


Show distribution of deleted reviews

Warn Rating Trend

  • 12%
  • Created over 4 days

We counted 116 reviews for this product over the span of 1,563 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 4 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 14 reviews were created on just 4 days. Although any days with a larger number of reviews than expected is suspicious, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.6
4.6


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn Unverified Purchases

69 of the 116 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. While this is a higher percentage of unverified purchases than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the unverified purchases and verified purchases isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.7
4.5


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 Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


15 of the 116 reviewers have only reviewed this product. While this is more One-Hit Wonders than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the One-Hit Wonders and reviewers who have posted more than one review isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

from one-hit wonders

from reviewers with more than one review


4.7
4.6


Never-Verified Reviewers


29 of the 116 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. While this is more Never-Verified Reviewers than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Never-Verified Reviewers and reviewers who have written at least one verified purchase review isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

from never-verified reviewers

from reviewers with at least one verified purchase review


4.7
4.6


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Warn 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 4.4. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.

4.6 Product's Average Ease Score

4.4 Category's Average Ease Score


4.6
4.4


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Warn Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.

Common Phrases in Titles:
3 reviews
(4.7/5)


15 of the 116 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.7
4.6


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Pass Word Count Comparison

  • 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.

Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:

4% also reviewed:
Incendies by Lubna Azabal

3% also reviewed:
Blitz [Blu-ray] by Jason Statham

Does not include products
from the same brand


14 of the 116 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.

from reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.8
4.6


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

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.


2 of the 116 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.

from incentivized reviews

from non-incentivized reviews


4.0
4.6


Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.