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From Jonathan Eig
This report was last updated 5/1/2019.
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Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
Report Card
Fail Overall Grade
FAIL
Suspicious Reviewers
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FAIL
Reviewer Ease
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WARN
Deleted Reviews
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WARN
Rating Trend
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WARN
Phrase Repetition
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WARN
Reviewer Participation
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PASS
Unverified Purchases
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PASS
Word Count Comparison
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PASS
Overlapping Review History
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PASS
Brand Repeats
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PASS
Incentivized Reviews
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Most Trusted Reviews
Good [Go to full review]
Jun 20, 2018
100%
TRUST
TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (4 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.0)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)
Least Trusted Reviews
I am an Ali nut. I think I have read ... [Go to full review]
Oct 10, 2017
0%
TRUST
TRUST
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Unverified Purchaser
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Created on a high volume day
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Contains repetitive phrases (
show)
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One-Hit Wonder
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Never-Verified Reviewer
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 1 Review)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Fail
Suspicious Reviewers
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One-Hit Wonders
27 of the 131 reviewers have only reviewed this product. While this is more One-Hit Wonders than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between the One-Hit Wonders and reviewers who have posted more than one review isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Take-Back Reviewers
24 of the 131 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. This is an excessively large percentage of Take-Back Reviewers which may indicate unnatural reviews.
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 4.4, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 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.
4.4 Product's Average Ease Score
4.3 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Warn
Deleted Reviews
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We discovered a total of 1 deleted Review for this product, with an average rating of 3. 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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- 19%
- Created over 4 days
We counted 131 reviews for this product over the span of 559 days, an average of 0.2 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 3 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 4 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 25 reviews were created on just 4 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
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.
26 of the 131 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Warn
Reviewer Participation
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- 67%
- 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 88 reviewers (or 67%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass
Unverified Purchases
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57 of the 131 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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- 17%
- 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 22 reviews (or 17%) 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.
Pass
Overlapping Review History
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Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
6% also reviewed:
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders... by Eig, Jonathan
5% also reviewed:
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel by Anthony Doerr
5% also reviewed:
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
5% also reviewed:
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
4% also reviewed:
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
4% also reviewed:
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4% also reviewed:
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness,... by Candice Millard
Does not include products
from the same brand
from the same brand
28 of the 131 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
7 of the 131 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
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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.