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Amazon Reviews for Paper Towns
Rating:
5,376 Ratings
5,375 Reviews
("Ratings" vs. "Reviews")
46% of potentially unnatural reviews removed (why?)
Adjusted:
2,903 Reviews



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Note: While Amazon.com claims 5,376 Ratings, we counted 5,375 Reviews available on their site.
Note: We only analyze "reviews" and ignore one-tap "ratings".

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

Most Trusted Reviews

5/5
A Paper Town for a Paper Girl
John Green eloquently extends metaphors of the shallow lives people ... [Go to full review]
Aug 2, 2017      
100% TRUST
  • Unverified Purchaser
  • Take-Back Reviewer (1 deleted Review; avg. rating: 2.0)
  • Brand Repeater (3 of 387 reviews for this brand; avg rating: 4.7)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.4)

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Least Trusted Reviews

5/5
Five Stars
Not going to lie I'm a 17 year old boy ... [Go to full review]
Aug 6, 2015      
0% TRUST
  • Verified Purchaser
  • Created on a high volume day
  • Overrepresented word count (12 words)
  • Overrepresented Participation (posted 2 Reviews)
  • Easy Grader (avg. rating: 5.0)

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Analysis Details

Fail Suspicious Reviewers

One-Hit Wonders


575 of the 5,375 reviewers have only reviewed this product. The One-Hit Wonders have rated this product an average of 4.3 while the reviewers who have posted more than one review have rated this product an average of 4.1. 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 one-hit wonders

from reviewers with more than one review


4.3
4.1

Take-Back Reviewers


1,646 of the 5,375 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. While this is more Take-Back Reviewers than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from take-back reviewers

from reviewers without previously deleted reviews


4.1
4.1

Single-Day Reviewers


64 of the 5,375 reviewers have written multiple reviews but posted all of them on a single day. The Single-Day reviewers have rated this product an average of 4.4 while all other reviewers rated this product an average of 4.1. 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 single-day reviewers

from non-single-day reviewers


4.4
4.1

Read more about our Suspicious Reviewers test.

Fail Word Count Comparison

  • 67%
  • 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 4 groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 3,591 reviews (or 67%) are within an overrepresented word count group. These reviews have rated this product an average of 4.2, while all other reviews 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 reviews with an overrepresented word count

from reviews with a properly represented word count


4.2
3.9

Read more about our Word Count Comparison test.

Warn Rating Trend

  • 45%
  • Created over 209 days

We counted 5,375 reviews for this product over the span of 4,181 days, an average of 1.3 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 6 or fewer reviews on any given day.

However, we see the following 209 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 2,411 reviews were created on just 209 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


4.1
4.1

Read more about our Rating Trend test.

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:
fault in our stars

466 reviews
(3.7/5)
margo roth spiegelman

183 reviews
(4.2/5)
john green book

217 reviews
(4.1/5)
by john green

200 reviews
(4.4/5)
looking for alaska

261 reviews
(3.6/5)
couldn't put it down

105 reviews
(4.7/5)
john green's books

60 reviews
(4.3/5)
the main character

133 reviews
(3.7/5)
recommend this book

166 reviews
(4.4/5)
the fault in our stars

381 reviews
(3.7/5)
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Common Phrases in Titles:
our stars

296 reviews
(3.9/5)


896 of the 5,375 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. While this is more than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.

from reviews with substantial repetitive phrases

from reviews without substantial repetitive phrases


4.1
4.1

Read more about our Phrase Repetition test.

Warn Reviewer Participation

  • 80%
  • From reviewers with an overrepresented participation

We see the following 3 participation groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 4296 reviewers (or 80%) 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


4.1
4.1

Read more about our Reviewer Participation test.

Pass Unverified Purchases

1,223 of the 5,375 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.

from unverified purchasers

from verified purchases


3.9
4.2

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
Reviewers of this product have ALSO reviewed the following products:


7% also reviewed:
Insurgent: Divergent, Book 2 by Veronica Roth


6% also reviewed:
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games Trilogy, Book 1) by Suzanne Collins


6% also reviewed:
Where She Went by Gayle Forman


4% also reviewed:
Gone Girl: A Novel by Julia Whelan


4% also reviewed:
An Abundance of Katherines by Speak


3% also reviewed:
Allegiant (Divergent Series, 3) by Veronica Roth


3% also reviewed:
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell


3% also reviewed:
The Maze Runner: Maze Runner, Book 1 by James Dashner

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from the same brand


1,275 of the 5,375 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


4.2
4.1

Read more about our Overlapping Review History test.

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


4.3
4.2

Read more about our Reviewer Ease test.


Pass Brand Repeats

Brand Repeaters


881 of the 5,375 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


4.3
4.1

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.

  • 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.

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.