The Border: A Novel (Power of the Dog Book 3)
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From Don Winslow
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Most Trusted Reviews
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.8)
Least Trusted Reviews
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
- Brand Repeater (2 of 20 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 5.0)
- Overlapping Review History: reviewed 2 of 9 top products
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 20 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)
Analysis Details
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131 of the 620 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.1 while the reviewers who have a more unique product review history rated this product an average of 3.6. 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.
We discovered a total of 7 deleted Reviews for this product, with an average rating of 1.9. 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.
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- 28%
- Created over 24 days
We counted 620 reviews for this product over the span of 813 days, an average of 0.8 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 5 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 24 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 173 reviews were created on just 24 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Take-Back Reviewers
184 of the 620 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.
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- 75%
- 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 466 reviewers (or 75%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
226 of the 620 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.
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- 0%
- Have an overrepresented word count
Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.
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76 of the 620 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.
3.9 Product's Average Ease Score
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
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Brand Repeaters
122 of the 620 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.
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- 0%
- Admitted to receiving an incentive
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.