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Maui: Ten Ways to Enjoy the Best Food, Beaches and Locations While on Vacation in 2018 (Get...
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Amazon Reviews for  Maui: Ten Ways to Enjoy the Best Food, Beaches and Locations While on Vacation in 2018 (Get Published Travel Series Book 1)
Rating:
37 Ratings
37 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
57% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Rating Trend
FAIL Unverified Purchases
FAIL Brand Repeats
FAIL Overlapping Review History
FAIL Reviewer Participation
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Phrase Repetition
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

The author visits Maui with his mother. The reviews are ... [Go to full review]
Jan 29, 2018      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (3 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.7)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.0)


Least Trusted Reviews

Paul does an excellent job helping you to really envision ... [Go to full review]
Aug 11, 2016      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Overrepresented word count (76 words)
  • Brand Repeater (4 of 10 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 10 Reviews)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)


Analysis Details

Fail Rating Trend

  • 24%
  • Created over 2 days

We counted 37 reviews for this product over the span of 537 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 2 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 9 reviews were created on just 2 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 5.0 while reviews from other days 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.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


5.0
3.4


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Fail Unverified Purchases

9 of the 37 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.9 while the verified purchasers 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.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.9
3.4


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.

Fail Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


20 of the 37 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


4.9
2.5


Brand Loyalists


3 of the 37 reviewers have reviewed multiple products but half or more of their reviews are for this brand. This is an excessively large percentage of Brand Loyalists which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from Brand Loyalists

from Non-Loyalists


5.0
3.7


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

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

Does not include products
from the same brand


11 of the 37 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.8 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history 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.

from reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.8
3.4


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Fail Reviewer Participation

  • 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 20 reviewers (or 54%) are within an overrepresented participation group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 3.2, while all other reviews have rated this product an average of 4.5. 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 an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


3.2
4.5


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Warn Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers


1 of the 37 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.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


5.0
3.8


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Pass Word Count Comparison

  • 30%
  • 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 1 group with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 11 reviews (or 30%) are within an overrepresented word count group. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


3.9
3.7


Read more about our Word Count Comparison 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:
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
3 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(3.0/5)
2 reviews
(1.5/5)
3 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(2.5/5)
2 reviews
(3.5/5)
2 reviews
(1.5/5)
2 reviews
(2.0/5)
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Common Phrases in Titles:
3 reviews
(3.7/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)


5 of the 37 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.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


3.6
3.8


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

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 4.3.

4.2 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.2
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Ease 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.

  • 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.

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.