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An American Bum in China: Featuring the bumblingly brilliant escapades of expatriate Matthew Evans
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From Tom Carter
This report was last updated 8/18/2020.
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Note: While Amazon.com claims 27 Ratings, we counted 23 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".
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Suspicious Reviewers
Suspicious ReviewersWARN Reviewer Ease
Reviewer EaseWARN Phrase Repetition
Phrase RepetitionWARN Overlapping Review History
Overlapping Review HistoryWARN Reviewer Participation
Reviewer ParticipationPASS Rating Trend
Rating TrendPASS Unverified Purchases
Unverified PurchasesPASS Word Count Comparison
Word Count ComparisonPASS Brand Repeats
Brand RepeatsPASS Incentivized Reviews
Incentivized ReviewsPASS Deleted Reviews
Deleted Reviews
Most Trusted Reviews
This is about my cousin. I'm amazed by the experiences ... [Go to full review]
Oct 3, 2019
100%
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Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 2.0) -
Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 2.8)
Least Trusted Reviews
Since 2008, there’s been no shortage of Western authors with ... [Go to full review]
Nov 1, 2019
25%
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Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)
Analysis Details
Warn Suspicious Reviewers
Suspicious Reviewers
Never-Verified Reviewers
5 of the 23 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 Reviewer Ease
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. 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
4.2 Category's Average Ease Score
Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.
Warn Phrase Repetition
Phrase Repetition
Reviews that contain one of these phrases are NOT necessarily devalued; read more about how this test works here.
11 of the 23 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. This is an excessively large percentage which may indicate unnatural reviews.
Warn Overlapping Review History
Overlapping Review History
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:
52% also reviewed:
China: Portrait of a People by Tom Carter
22% also reviewed:
Incendies by Lubna Azabal
17% also reviewed:
Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the... by Tom Carter
17% also reviewed:
Blitz [Blu-ray] by Jason Statham
17% also reviewed:
Reloaded by Not Specified
13% also reviewed:
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Harvest Books
13% also reviewed:
Back to Black [Vinyl] by Record
13% also reviewed:
Strike Back: Season 1 (Cinemax) by HBO HOME VIDEO
13% also reviewed:
Snitch by Dwayne Johnson
12 of the 23 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. While this is more than we'd expect to see, the discrepancy in ratings between these reviewers and reviewers who have a more unique product review history isn't significant enough to rule out the possibility of it being due to random chance.
Warn Reviewer Participation
Reviewer Participation
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- 78%
- 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 18 reviewers (or 78%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
Pass Rating Trend
Rating Trend
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- Created on high-volume days
We counted 23 reviews for this product over the span of 192 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. 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
Unverified Purchases
11 of the 23 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
Word Count Comparison
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- 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 Brand Repeats
Brand Repeats
Brand Repeaters
We didn't detect a substantial amount of Brand Repeaters.
Pass Incentivized Reviews
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 23 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.
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
Deleted Reviews
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- 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.