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The ranking score percentage is used to compare and sort experiences in ranking tables. It is not necessarily a direct measurement of the quality of a particular experience as rated by its customers. I've found it a useful tool to allow me to find the best experiences with confidence. But I've also found it important to read the customer reviews before making any final judgements!

We calculate an experience's ranking score using a multi-factor data model instead of a raw data average (mean). This model takes into account several important questions. For instance - is there a trusted body of reviews? What is the age of a review and is the review from a credible source?

Below you'll find details around some of the important factors that went into calculating the ranking score for Mossburn Country Park.

If you have any questions or comments about our ranking score calculation please get in touch at info@rankers.co.nz. We don't believe this is perfect or complete so we're always interested in ways we might make improvements.

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Mossburn Country Park

Valid Reviews

127 Valid Reviews

The Mossburn Country Park experience has a total of 135 reviews. There are 127 valid reviews that are included when calculating the ranking score and 8 invalid reviews that are excluded from the calculation. Reviews can be excluded only when a reviewer is not verified or after an investigation by our team determines the reviewer is not genuine.

Below is the distribution of ratings for the 127 valid reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 78
61%
9/10 24
19%
8/10 15
12%
7/10 7
6%
6/10 1
1%
5/10 0
0%
4/10 0
0%
3/10 1
1%
2/10 0
0%
1/10 1
1%

92.52% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Mossburn Country Park valid reviews is 92.52% and is based on 127 valid reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here as a comparison to the weighted average.

Face-to-Face Reviews

15 Face-to-Face Reviews

The Rankers team meets with travellers while they’re in New Zealand and conducts face-to-face surveys. These reviews, in our opinion, are the most trusted in the industry and represent a critical control sample. To our knowledge, we are the only travel review website in the world that has gone to this extent.

More about face-to-face reviews

Within the 127 valid reviews, the experience has 15 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.

Below is the distribution of ratings for the 15 face-to-face reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 5
33%
9/10 4
27%
8/10 5
33%
7/10 0
0%
6/10 1
7%
5/10 0
0%
4/10 0
0%
3/10 0
0%
2/10 0
0%
1/10 0
0%

88.00% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Mossburn Country Park face-to-face reviews is 88.00% and is based on 15 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.

Weighted Average

95.76%

Rankers calculates a weighted mean as a base average on which we can improve. Individual review's ratings are given a weight based on several factors. The weight of a review determines the overall impact it'll have on the final weighted average.

Recent reviews have more weight as they are more relevant and reflect the experience as it currently operates. Over time reviews become less relevant and loose their impact on the ranking score.

Low rating reviews carry slightly less weight. This dampens the effect of very low ratings for every experience across the board. This is especially important when the experience has few reviews overall and a single negative rating can grossly mischaracterise an experience. Consistent poor reviews will still result in the experience receiving a comparitively low ranking score.

Credible sources provide reviews that can be trusted. If we have verified a reviewer is genuine via a face-to-face meeting then the review carries additional weight.

Reviewer Rating Age Relative Weight
Rhonda 10/10 14 days 100%
VamperCan 10/10 14 days 100%
Andy Williamson 10/10 45 days 100%
YC 10/10 45 days 100%
Anne 10/10 45 days 100%
Brett 7/10 45 days 93%
Charly and family 10/10 76 days 100%
Christiane 10/10 137 days 99%
Caron 10/10 320 days 94%
Miriam 10/10 411 days 90%
Sandra Staples 9/10 411 days 89%
Chris H 10/10 442 days 89%
Julia Richter 10/10 442 days 89%
Diana Antunez 10/10 472 days 87%
Silene.arvinberod@gmail.com 10/10 472 days 87%
Chc 10/10 472 days 87%
annelie slaar 9/10 503 days 85%
Ren15 10/10 503 days 86%
Victoria 7/10 503 days 80%
Pauline 10/10 503 days 86%
Elke 10/10 686 days 73%
Tasmin 9/10 717 days 70%
Katie Edser 10/10 717 days 71%
Kelsey Fisher 10/10 717 days 71%
Dave and Nicky 10/10 807 days 63%
Rob J 9/10 807 days 62%
Sue and Ron 10/10 837 days 60%
Shona Beach 10/10 837 days 60%
Joan Hermitage 10/10 868 days 57%
Yuri Fey 10/10 868 days 57%
Russell 1/10 868 days 23%
Anne S 9/10 1082 days 36%
Heather and Jim 10/10 1172 days 29%
Kathryn Torkington 10/10 1233 days 25%
Steven 10/10 1447 days 13%
Luke 10/10 1475 days 12%
Cait Turner 8/10 1506 days 11%
Tori 10/10 1537 days 10%
Joanne 10/10 1598 days 8%
Lynley and Ian Breeze 10/10 1598 days 8%
Lauren 8/10 1812 days 5%
Amy 10/10 1841 days 5%
Moritz 10/10 1841 days 5%
Pierre-Yves 10/10 1841 days 5%
Allan and Kelly 10/10 1841 days 5%
Johan 10/10 1841 days 5%
Melissa 10/10 1872 days 5%
Nik 10/10 1872 days 5%
Erica 10/10 1872 days 5%
Leon 9/10 1872 days 5%
Chris 10/10 1903 days 5%
Peter Nesnebse 8/10 1903 days 5%
Antoine 10/10 1933 days 5%
Lucie 10/10 1933 days 5%
Javier Williams 9/10 1933 days 5%
K&KRahimi 9/10 1933 days 5%
Shona Beach 10/10 1964 days 5%
Vicki Hoskinson 10/10 2178 days 4%
John 9/10 2178 days 4%
Kathryn Torkington 10/10 2206 days 4%
Brigitta 8/10 2206 days 4%
Marty 10/10 2206 days 4%
From DK 9/10 2237 days 4%
Francois & Caroline 9/10 2237 days 4%
Yh kim 10/10 2237 days 4%
Richard 9/10 2237 days 4%
Nadine 10/10 2268 days 4%
Sellers Family 10/10 2298 days 4%
Shona Beach 10/10 2329 days 4%
Carl 10/10 2329 days 4%
S Becker 10/10 2512 days 4%
Jos Mulder 10/10 2574 days 4%
Suzanne Wijsman 9/10 2579 days 3%
Xiao Xiao 9/10 2612 days 3%
Kerine Au 10/10 2633 days 3%
Lukas Hauser 10/10 2651 days 3%
Crystal Wang 3/10 2665 days 2%
Madelyn Fagerman 10/10 2871 days 3%
Vicki 10/10 2881 days 3%
Frank Hofmann 10/10 2902 days 3%
Marie Blom 10/10 2906 days 3%
Josh Marks 10/10 2920 days 3%
Matthias Wohlgemuth 9/10 2950 days 3%
Barbara-Rose Townsend 9/10 2953 days 3%
Martine Baars 10/10 2971 days 3%
Ajit Raut 10/10 3013 days 3%
Ivan Wee 8/10 3027 days 3%
Nancy LeRoy 9/10 3028 days 3%
Ivan W. 10/10 3059 days 3%
Susan H 10/10 3061 days 3%
Matteo Verzi 7/10 3260 days 2%
Sandy Bell 10/10 3300 days 2%
Louise Alexander 10/10 3302 days 2%
Yuan Lin 8/10 3307 days 2%
Rachel Macdonald 7/10 3322 days 2%
robert zdebski 9/10 3364 days 2%
Sarah Gurney 7/10 3371 days 2%
Graham Lighner 10/10 3374 days 1%
Jennifer Brown 9/10 3394 days 2%
Lena + Kristof 10/10 3639 days 1%
Thomas Blom 8/10 3667 days 1%
Kodie Howarth 10/10 3696 days 1%
Rasmus Rantil 10/10 3702 days 1%
Bjorn Privat 10/10 3709 days 1%
Kim Frey 7/10 3709 days 1%
Silvia Hudakova 10/10 3729 days 1%
Julian Kuemme 10/10 3979 days 1%
Andrea Sole 10/10 3979 days 1%
Mandy Reich 9/10 3980 days 1%
Monique Monique 7/10 4032 days 1%
Petra Niemann 10/10 4063 days 1%
Eric and Nienke 8/10 4094 days 1%
J Murphy 8/10 4124 days 0%
Luise Fuchs 9/10 4359 days 0%
Michal 8/10 4373 days 0%
Przemystaw Tymizyszyn 8/10 4373 days 0%
Guillot 9/10 4376 days 0%
phudgb 10/10 4520 days 1%
Rebecca Doehl 8/10 4747 days 1%
Sue DeVries 8/10 5077 days 1%
Marii Joekalda 9/10 5083 days 1%
Tina Madsen 8/10 5086 days 1%
Sabine Tippman 6/10 5086 days 1%
nelliekaye 9/10 5281 days 1%
hellami 8/10 5585 days 1%
Andrea 10/10 5716 days 1%
JohannaB 10/10 5818 days 1%

Adjustments

No Adjustment

Several adjustments to the weighted average may be added to improve relevancy and credibility. Mossburn Country Park does not meet the criteria for any of these adjustments to apply.

Balancing Adjustment

0.36% Adjustment

Every experience's review score is adjusted to balance out the disproportional number of negative reviews that are contributed.

You won't be surprised to learn that disgruntled customers are more likely to leave a review than happy ones. They are motivated to share their experience and warn others. We consider this a good thing and it's why reading the reviews is important. However we've learned it can misrepresent the experience in a more overall sense.

We apply a balancing adjustment to counteract this effect and ensure the ranking score is a more fair representation of the experience. This adjustment is applied equally to all experiences.

Final Ranking Score

96%

The final ranking score once any adjustments, ratings, and rounding has been applied. This value is recalculated each day and a short rolling average is applied. Therefore it may not be precisely accurate based on the other values presented.