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Note: While Amazon.com claims 1,389 Ratings, we counted 971 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
Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Word Count Comparison
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Phrase Repetition
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
I was faked into thinking that Stephen King had more ... [Go to full review]
Nov 17, 2020
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (25 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.9)
- Brand Repeater (5 of 124 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.7)
Least Trusted Reviews
All the writers lived up to the horror stories of ... [Go to full review]
Sep 11, 2018
32%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Overrepresented word count (21 words)
- Take-Back Reviewer (2 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.5)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 19 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.5)
Analysis Details
Fail Word Count Comparison
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- 49%
- 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 2 groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 477 reviews (or 49%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 3.7, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 3.4. 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.
Warn Deleted Reviews
We discovered a total of 1 deleted Review for this product, with an average rating of 2. 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 Rating Trend
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- 30%
- Created over 31 days
We counted 971 reviews for this product over the span of 1,554 days, an average of 0.6 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 4 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 31 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 295 reviews were created on just 31 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
375 of the 971 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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- 54%
- 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 521 reviewers (or 54%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Unverified Purchases
57 of the 971 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 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:
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80 reviews
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18 reviews
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13 reviews
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17 reviews
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19 reviews
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19 reviews
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17 reviews
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30 reviews
(2.5/5)
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29 reviews
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110 of the 971 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
10% also reviewed:
Revival: A Novel by Stephen King
9% also reviewed:
Finders Keepers: A Novel by Stephen King
9% also reviewed:
The Outsider: A Novel by Stephen King
8% also reviewed:
Doctor Sleep: A Novel (The Shining Book 2) by Stephen King
7% also reviewed:
Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success by Stephen R. Covey
7% also reviewed:
End of Watch: A Novel (3) (The Bill Hodges... by Stephen King
6% also reviewed:
Elevation by Stephen King
5% also reviewed:
Mr. Mercedes: A Novel (1) (The Bill Hodges... by Stephen King
5% also reviewed:
The Institute: A Novel by Stephen King
321 of the 971 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
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.
4.2 Product's Average Ease Score
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.
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 971 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.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.