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Becoming Better Grownups: Rediscovering What Matters and Remembering How to Fly
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This report was last updated 7/1/2020.
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Fail Overall Grade
FAIL Reviewer Ease
WARN Rating Trend
WARN Suspicious Reviewers
WARN Word Count Comparison
WARN Phrase Repetition
WARN Reviewer Participation
PASS Unverified Purchases
PASS Overlapping Review History
PASS Brand Repeats
PASS Incentivized Reviews
PASS Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
This book is even better than I expected.I know that ... [Go to full review]
Apr 11, 2020
100%
TRUST
TRUST
- Verified Purchaser
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 4.1)
Least Trusted Reviews
Adulting is real. There's no getting around that. Brad did ... [Go to full review]
Apr 13, 2020
0%
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TRUST
- Unverified Purchaser
- Created on a high volume day
- Contains repetitive phrases (show)
- Never-Verified Reviewer
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 2 Reviews)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
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 4.7, while the average ease score for reviewers in this category is 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.
4.7 Product's Average Ease Score
4.4 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Warn Rating Trend
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- 51%
- Created over 6 days
We counted 236 reviews for this product over the span of 78 days, an average of 3.0 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 10 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 6 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 121 reviews were created on just 6 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
One-Hit Wonders
55 of the 236 reviewers have only reviewed this product. While this is more One-Hit Wonders than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Never-Verified Reviewers
49 of the 236 reviewers have never written a verified purchase review. While this is more Never-Verified Reviewers than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Warn Word Count Comparison
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- 44%
- 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 2 groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 104 reviews (or 44%) 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.
Warn 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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3 reviews
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2 reviews
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7 reviews
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12 reviews
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10 reviews
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2 reviews
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2 reviews
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8 reviews
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5 reviews
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3 reviews
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55 of the 236 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Warn Reviewer Participation
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- 94%
- 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 94%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Unverified Purchases
95 of the 236 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 Overlapping Review History
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- 0%
- Substantial overlapping review history
0 of the 236 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.
Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.
Read more about our Overlapping Review History 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.
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:
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.