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Sense and Sensibility
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Amazon Reviews for  Sense and Sensibility
Rating:
6,172 Ratings
6,075 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
57% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Mar 3, 2018
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 6,172 Ratings, we counted 6,075 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

Report Card

Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Suspicious Reviewers
FAIL Reviewer Ease
FAIL Phrase Repetition
FAIL Overlapping Review History
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Brand Repeats
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

We couldn't find any quality reviews

Least Trusted Reviews

I love Austen books. [Go to full review]
Jan 23, 2018      
15% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (11 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.9)
  • Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 14 Reviews)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)


Analysis Details

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers


988 of the 6,075 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. The Take-Back Reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.4 while the reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history have rated this product an average of 4.2. 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 take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.4
4.2


Single-Day Reviewers


1,087 of the 6,075 reviewers have written multiple reviews but posted all of them on a single day. While this is more Single-Day Reviewers than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from single-day reviewers

from non-single-day reviewers


4.2
4.2


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

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 4.2, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.2. 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.

4.2 Product's Average Ease Score

4.2 Category's Average Ease Score


4.2
4.2


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


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

Common Phrases in Reviews:
627 reviews
179 reviews
161 reviews
187 reviews
111 reviews
270 reviews
102 reviews
100 reviews
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Common Phrases in Titles:
199 reviews


517 of the 6,075 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.5 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.2. 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 reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.5
4.2


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

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

9% also reviewed:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

4% also reviewed:
Frankenstein by Dover Publications

3% also reviewed:
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

3% also reviewed:
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Does not include products
from the same brand


1,704 of the 6,075 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.4 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 4.1. 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 substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.4
4.1


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Warn Rating Trend

  • 18%
  • Created over 151 days

We counted 6,075 reviews for this product over the span of 7,466 days, an average of 0.8 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 5 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 151 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 1,098 reviews were created on just 151 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.3
4.2


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


1,604 of the 6,075 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


4.5
4.1


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 55%
  • 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 3337 reviewers (or 55%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.1
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

1,561 of the 6,075 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.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.1
4.2


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

  • 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 Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.


9 of the 6,075 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


4.4
4.2


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
  • 0
  • 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:
  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.