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Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
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From Tom Wright
This report was last updated 8/23/2020.
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 688 Ratings, we counted 382 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".
Report Card
Pass Overall Grade
FAIL
Phrase Repetition

WARN
Deleted Reviews

WARN
Suspicious Reviewers

WARN
Reviewer Participation

PASS
Rating Trend

PASS
Unverified Purchases

PASS
Word Count Comparison

PASS
Overlapping Review History

PASS
Reviewer Ease

PASS
Brand Repeats

PASS
Incentivized Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews
A great story that brings you from the beginning of ... [Go to full review]
Aug 17, 2019
100%
TRUST
TRUST
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Verified Purchaser
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Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.7)
Least Trusted Reviews
If Hollywood's biggest producers aren't already fighting over the rights ... [Go to full review]
Sep 20, 2018
32%
TRUST
TRUST
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Unverified Purchaser
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Contains repetitive phrases (
show)
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Never-Verified Reviewer
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Overrepresented Participation (posted 2 Reviews)
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Fail
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:
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9 reviews
(4.9/5)
(4.9/5)
12 reviews
(4.4/5)
(4.4/5)
11 reviews
(4.9/5)
(4.9/5)
10 reviews
(4.5/5)
(4.5/5)
13 reviews
(4.5/5)
(4.5/5)
4 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
4 reviews
(4.3/5)
(4.3/5)
6 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
5 reviews
(4.8/5)
(4.8/5)
3 reviews
(4.7/5)
(4.7/5)
Common Phrases in Titles:
6 reviews
(5.0/5)
(5.0/5)
3 reviews
(4.7/5)
(4.7/5)
34 of the 382 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.8 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases 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.
Warn
Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 1 deleted Review for this product, with an average rating of 5. 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
Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders
47 of the 382 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.
Warn
Reviewer Participation

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- 68%
- 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 260 reviewers (or 68%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass
Rating Trend

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- 0%
- Created on high-volume days
We counted 382 reviews for this product over the span of 698 days, an average of 0.5 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 4 or fewer reviews on any given day. We didn't find any days exceeding this threshold.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Read more about our Rating Trend test.
Pass
Unverified Purchases

114 of the 382 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

Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
9% also reviewed:
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley... by John Carreyrou
4% also reviewed:
YUSHU Seamless Face Cover Mouth Mask Scarf... by YUSHU
4% also reviewed:
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture... by J. D. Vance
4% also reviewed:
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
4% also reviewed:
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
4% also reviewed:
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
3% also reviewed:
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
3% also reviewed:
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Does not include products
from the same brand
from the same brand
85 of the 382 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
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 4.3, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.2. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.
4.3 Product's Average Ease Score
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Pass
Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters
We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.
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.
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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.