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Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
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Amazon Reviews for  Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
Rating:
300 Ratings
300 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
67% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Rating Trend
FAIL Reviewer Participation
WARN Unverified Purchases
WARN Incentivized Reviews
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Word Count Comparison
WARN Phrase Repetition
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Reviewer Ease
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

This is a great book to read on your own ... [Go to full review]
Sep 17, 2018      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.6)


Least Trusted Reviews

Review I received an advanced copy of Inspired in exchange ... [Go to full review]
Jun 12, 2018      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Overrepresented word count (177 words)
  • Admitted to receiving an incentive
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 6 Reviews)
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.0)


Analysis Details

Fail Rating Trend

  • 42%
  • Created over 11 days

We counted 300 reviews for this product over the span of 254 days, an average of 1.2 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 6 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 11 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 127 reviews were created on just 11 days. The reviews on these high volume days have rated this product an average of 4.7 while reviews from other days have rated this product an average of 4.4. 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


4.7
4.4


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Fail Reviewer Participation

  • 74%
  • 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 222 reviewers (or 74%) are within an overrepresented participation group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.6, while all other reviews have 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.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.6
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Warn Unverified Purchases

163 of the 300 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. While this is a higher percentage of unverified purchases than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


4.4
4.7


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 Incentivized Reviews
On Oct 3, 2016, Amazon prohibited incentivized reviews, however we still test for them since there are still millions in our dataset.


16 of the 300 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is more than we would expect see; the presences of at least one incentivized review indicates that there may be more, since not all reviewers will disclose that they had received an incentive to post a review.

from incentivized reviews

from non-incentivized reviews


4.4
4.6


Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.

Warn Suspicious Reviewers

Take-Back Reviewers


26 of the 300 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.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.3
4.6


Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Warn Word Count Comparison

  • 31%
  • 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 94 reviews (or 31%) are within an overrepresented word count group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented word count groups than we'd expect to see, these reviews do not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.5
4.5


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Warn Phrase Repetition


170 of the 300 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.6
4.5


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

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



88 of the 300 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.

from reviewers with substantial overlapping history

from reviewers without a substantial overlapping history


4.4
4.6


Read more about our Overlapping Review History 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 4.4, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.4.

4.4 Product's Average Ease Score

4.4 Category's Average Ease Score


4.4
4.4


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


6 of the 300 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.

from Brand Repeaters

from Non-Repeaters


4.7
4.5


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

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.