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Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 3 (Best Women's Erotica Series)
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Amazon Reviews for  Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 3 (Best Women's Erotica Series)
Rating:
95 Ratings
63 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
89% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Feb 24, 2021
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 95 Ratings, we counted 63 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

Report Card

Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Unverified Purchases
FAIL Brand Repeats
FAIL Reviewer Ease
FAIL Phrase Repetition
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Incentivized Reviews
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Word Count Comparison
PASS Suspicious Reviewers
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Deleted Reviews

Most Trusted Reviews

Wasn't worth my time or money...expected much more. [Go to full review]
Jul 29, 2018      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 3.8)


Least Trusted Reviews

A Great read. Well written, a variety of short stories ... [Go to full review]
Jan 31, 2018      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Contains repetitive phrases (show)
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 30 Reviews)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.8)


Analysis Details

Fail Unverified Purchases

45 of the 63 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.5 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 3.9. 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


4.5
3.9


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 Loyalists


3 of the 63 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
4.3


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

Fail 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 4.5, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 4.2. 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.

4.5 Product's Average Ease Score

4.2 Category's Average Ease Score


4.5
4.2


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


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:
10 reviews
(4.6/5)
6 reviews
(4.5/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
5 reviews
(4.6/5)
5 reviews
(4.8/5)
4 reviews
(4.5/5)
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Common Phrases in Titles:
2 reviews
(4.5/5)
2 reviews
(3.5/5)
2 reviews
(4.5/5)
3 reviews
(4.3/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
4 reviews
(4.3/5)
3 reviews
(4.3/5)
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41 of the 63 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.5 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.0. 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 with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.5
4.0


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Rating Trend

  • 16%
  • Created over 3 days

We counted 63 reviews for this product over the span of 793 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 3 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 10 reviews were created on just 3 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.

from reviews created on high volume days

from reviews created on normal volume days


4.6
4.3


Read more about our Rating Trend 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.


9 of the 63 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. While we could not find a statistically significant difference between the average rating of incentivized reviews and non-incentivized reviews, 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
4.3


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 Reviewer Participation

  • 44%
  • 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 28 reviewers (or 44%) are within an overrepresented participation group. While this is more reviews from overrepresented participation groups than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between reviewers in an overrepresented participation groups and all other reviewers isn’t significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.5
4.2


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Word Count Comparison

  • 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.

Pass Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


1 of the 63 reviewers have only reviewed this product. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from one-hit wonders

from reviewers with more than one review


5.0
4.3


Never-Verified Reviewers


8 of the 63 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from never-verified reviewers

from reviewers with at least one verified purchase review


4.4
4.3


Take-Back Reviewers


14 of the 63 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.2
4.4


Single-Day Reviewers

We didn't detect a substantial amount of Single-Day Reviewers.

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

10% also reviewed:
The Baby Pact by Lexi Whitlow

10% also reviewed:
Torn by T.N King

Does not include products
from the same brand


18 of the 63 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


4.3
4.3


Read more about our Overlapping Review History 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.