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The Chosen: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
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From J.R. Ward
This report was last updated 10/1/2018.
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Incentivized Reviews
FAIL Reviewer Ease
FAIL Phrase Repetition
WARN Deleted Reviews
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Brand Repeats
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Overlapping Review History
Most Trusted Reviews
Holy crap! I cried repeatedly by only fourteen chapters in. ... [Go to full review]
Jun 3, 2017
100%
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TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (9 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.8)
- Brand Repeater (11 of 190 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 1 of 9 top products
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.0)
Least Trusted Reviews
Not sure why any Brotherhood fan would not be satisfied ... [Go to full review]
Apr 16, 2017
0%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Brand Loyalist (3 of 6 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.7)
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 6 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.7)
Analysis Details
Fail Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.
3 of the 1,569 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. Incentivized reviews have rated this product an average of 3.3 while reviews that were not incentivized rated this product an average of 4.7. 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.
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.
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 4.5, 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.
4.5 Product's Average Ease Score
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
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.
246 of the 1,569 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 5.0 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.6. 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 3 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 3.7. 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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- 61%
- Created over 36 days
We counted 1,569 reviews for this product over the span of 542 days, an average of 2.9 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 10 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 36 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 954 reviews were created on just 36 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Brand Repeats
Brand Loyalists
41 of the 1,569 reviewers have reviewed multiple products but half or more of their reviews are for this brand. While this is more Brand Loyalists than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the Brand Loyalists and non-loyalists isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
Take-Back Reviewers
69 of the 1,569 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, the discrepancy in ratings between the Take-Back Reviewers and reviewers who don't have any deleted reviews in their history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 63%
- 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 992 reviewers (or 63%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Unverified Purchases
187 of the 1,569 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 Word Count Comparison
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- 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.
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.
Pass Overlapping Review History
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433 of the 1,569 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.