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How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined...
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Amazon Reviews for  How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be
Rating:
320 Ratings
112 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
8% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
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Last Updated: Feb 10, 2023
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 320 Ratings, we counted 112 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

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

Most Trusted Reviews

Great analogy. The printed version is small - perfect for ... [Go to full review]
Mar 5, 2019      
100% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (3 deleted Reviews; avg. rating: 4.3)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.3)


Least Trusted Reviews

This content of this book is surprising but I loved ... [Go to full review]
Oct 23, 2018      
0% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 5.0)
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 4 Reviews)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)


Analysis Details

Warn Deleted Reviews

We discovered a total of 2 deleted Reviews 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:
  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.

5.0 average rating of deleted reviews

5.0


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Warn Rating Trend

  • 15%
  • Created over 4 days

We counted 112 reviews for this product over the span of 1,453 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 4 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 17 reviews were created on just 4 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


4.8
4.7


Read more about our Rating Trend test.

Warn Unverified Purchases

69 of the 112 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


4.6
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 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 4.3. While this discrepancy is rather large, it is not quite large enough to rule out the possibility of it being due random chance.

4.5 Product's Average Ease Score

4.3 Category's Average Ease Score


4.5
4.3


Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 79%
  • 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 79%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.

From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

From reviewers with a properly represented participation


4.7
4.5


Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Word Count Comparison

  • 25%
  • 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 28 reviews (or 25%) 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.

from reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.8
4.6


Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Pass 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:
3 reviews
(5.0/5)
3 reviews
(5.0/5)
3 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
4 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
3 reviews
(4.7/5)
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Common Phrases in Titles:
3 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)
2 reviews
(5.0/5)


10 of the 112 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.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


5.0
4.7


Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Pass Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


9 of the 112 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


4.3
4.7


Never-Verified Reviewers


13 of the 112 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


4.9
4.7


Take-Back Reviewers


27 of the 112 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


4.6
4.7


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:

4% also reviewed:
War of Art, The by Steven Pressfield

Does not include products
from the same brand


19 of the 112 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
4.7


Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


4 of the 112 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


5.0
4.7


Read more about our Brand Repeats test.

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.


1 of the 112 total reviews for this product admitted to receiving a free or discounted product in exchange for a review. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.

from incentivized reviews

from non-incentivized reviews


5.0
4.7


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