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All the Breaking Waves: A Novel
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From Kerry Lonsdale
This report was last updated 7/6/2020.
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Word Count Comparison
FAIL Phrase Repetition
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Reviewer Ease
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
Kind of a ridiculous story, not believable on many levels. ... [Go to full review]
Apr 1, 2017
100%
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TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 1.0)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.5)
Least Trusted Reviews
I enjoyed reading All the Breaking Waves. I couldn't put ... [Go to full review]
Mar 28, 2017
0%
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TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Overrepresented word count (34 words)
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Brand Repeater (2 of 15 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 2 of 9 top products
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 15 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.9)
Analysis Details
Fail Word Count Comparison
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- 59%
- 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 1,147 reviews (or 59%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.4, while all other reviews 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.
Fail Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
178 of the 1,946 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 4.3. 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 Rating Trend
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- 18%
- Created over 32 days
We counted 1,946 reviews for this product over the span of 1,300 days, an average of 1.5 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 7 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 32 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 342 reviews were created on just 32 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Unverified Purchases
1,287 of the 1,946 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.
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
Take-Back Reviewers
521 of the 1,946 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 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 4.4, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.2. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.
4.4 Product's Average Ease Score
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 74%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 3 participation groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 1435 reviewers (or 74%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
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4% also reviewed:
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3% also reviewed:
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3% also reviewed:
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367 of the 1,946 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
Brand Repeaters
166 of the 1,946 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
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.
14 of the 1,946 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.
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:
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.