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Fail Overall Grade
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Suspicious Reviewers
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Reviewer Ease
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Deleted Reviews
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Rating Trend
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Unverified Purchases
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Word Count Comparison
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Phrase Repetition
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Reviewer Participation
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PASS
Overlapping Review History
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Brand Repeats
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Incentivized Reviews
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Most Trusted Reviews
Good book to help write college essays. [Go to full review]
Jul 18, 2016
80%
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Verified Purchaser
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Created on a high volume day
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Overrepresented word count (7 words)
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.9)
Least Trusted Reviews
The college essay application is one of the most important ... [Go to full review]
Jul 18, 2016
0%
TRUST
TRUST
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Unverified Purchaser
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Created on a high volume day
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Overrepresented word count (40 words)
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 4 Reviews)
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Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.0)
Analysis Details
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Suspicious Reviewers
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One-Hit Wonders
65 of the 95 reviewers have only reviewed this product. This is an excessively large percentage of One-Hit Wonders which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Never-Verified Reviewers
61 of the 95 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. This is an excessively large percentage of Never-Verified Reviewers which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Take-Back Reviewers
2 of the 95 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.
Fail
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 4.8, 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.
4.8 Product's Average Ease Score
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
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Deleted Reviews
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We discovered a total of 1 deleted Review for this product, with an average rating of 5. 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.
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Rating Trend
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- 73%
- Created over 11 days
We counted 95 reviews for this product over the span of 767 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 11 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 69 reviews were created on just 11 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
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Unverified Purchases
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82 of the 95 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. This is an excessively large percentage of unverified purchases and it may indicate unnatural reviews.
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.
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Word Count Comparison
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- 84%
- 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 4 groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 80 reviews (or 84%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is an excessively high number of reviews in overrepresented word count groups.
Warn
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.
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Common Phrases in Titles:
2 reviews
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20 of the 95 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. While this is more 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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- 83%
- 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 79 reviewers (or 83%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass
Overlapping Review History
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Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
2% also reviewed:
Avalon Hill Betrayal at House on the Hill, Green by Avalon Hill
2 of the 95 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
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.