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Hi, thanks for your interest in how we calculate an experience's ranking score. It's at the core of Rankers so I'm pleased you're curious.

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 Cathedral Cove Walk.

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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Cathedral Cove Walk

Valid Reviews

286 Valid Reviews

The Cathedral Cove Walk experience has a total of 286 valid reviews. There are no 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 286 valid reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 96
34%
9/10 82
29%
8/10 71
25%
7/10 29
10%
6/10 4
1%
5/10 1
0%
4/10 1
0%
3/10 0
0%
2/10 1
0%
1/10 1
0%

87.59% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Cathedral Cove Walk valid reviews is 87.59% and is based on 286 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

265 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 286 valid reviews, the experience has 265 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.

Below is the distribution of ratings for the 265 face-to-face reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 88
33%
9/10 78
29%
8/10 68
26%
7/10 23
9%
6/10 4
2%
5/10 1
0%
4/10 1
0%
3/10 0
0%
2/10 1
0%
1/10 1
0%

87.66% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Cathedral Cove Walk face-to-face reviews is 87.66% and is based on 265 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.

Weighted Average

88.03%

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
Michael 10/10 2509 days 100%
Matt McCloskey 9/10 2703 days 88%
Matthias and Adriane 8/10 2971 days 71%
Rachael Gray 7/10 3001 days 66%
Martin Fersebner 7/10 3008 days 65%
Chaulet 9/10 3013 days 70%
Breanna Alexander 7/10 3014 days 65%
Clementine 10/10 3037 days 69%
Claudia Schaefer 8/10 3039 days 67%
Gretha 10/10 3045 days 69%
Peter 9/10 3045 days 68%
Mireia Sanchez 10/10 3047 days 68%
Michael 8/10 3053 days 67%
Kees Mol 10/10 3056 days 68%
Alicia Speisekorn-Gil 8/10 3061 days 66%
David Santos 9/10 3064 days 67%
Dominique 7/10 3067 days 62%
Heike Buchmann 8/10 3067 days 66%
Kat 9/10 3068 days 66%
Ulf 9/10 3070 days 66%
Matthew Long 7/10 3070 days 62%
S Webb 10/10 3070 days 67%
Marie Christ 10/10 3088 days 66%
Frederik Fuchs 10/10 3089 days 66%
Anne 10/10 3103 days 65%
Leigh Dodds 9/10 3113 days 64%
Elizabeth Braidotti 10/10 3153 days 62%
Bernd Muller 8/10 3280 days 53%
Benjamin Leboucq 9/10 3299 days 53%
Adrien Richard 9/10 3299 days 53%
Sophie Rosenberg 10/10 3301 days 54%
Alexie Lion 9/10 3302 days 53%
Jan Berendsen 10/10 3304 days 53%
Jorge Anderson 10/10 3304 days 53%
Simon Schatz 7/10 3306 days 49%
Camilla Geert 7/10 3311 days 49%
Eline 8/10 3315 days 51%
Luala F 10/10 3318 days 53%
Math Meyer 10/10 3319 days 52%
Virginia Saez 10/10 3319 days 52%
Gessica 8/10 3319 days 51%
Nico Neubauer 7/10 3321 days 48%
Doerte 10/10 3323 days 52%
Benjamin Nager 8/10 3329 days 51%
Julie Miehling 9/10 3330 days 51%
Nico Wedel 9/10 3330 days 51%
Lauren Dinnage 8/10 3331 days 51%
Steve Barnwell 8/10 3331 days 51%
Alex Schott 9/10 3331 days 51%
Andrea Le Stunff 10/10 3332 days 52%
Sunja Abbe 10/10 3334 days 52%
Olga Barathova 9/10 3335 days 51%
Matias Santos 10/10 3337 days 51%
Mira Huckfield 7/10 3337 days 47%
Aaron Stalley 8/10 3339 days 50%
Marcus 7/10 3345 days 47%
Johannes Koch 7/10 3345 days 47%
Louise Boje 10/10 3347 days 51%
Natasha Harbinson 10/10 3349 days 51%
Maddalena Buffoni 9/10 3350 days 50%
Clara Loizeil 9/10 3351 days 50%
Patrick Veber 5/10 3351 days 36%
Hake Dolce 10/10 3352 days 51%
Julien Sene 9/10 3357 days 50%
Sari Aroalho 8/10 3360 days 49%
Briony 8/10 3360 days 49%
Richard Starkeq 6/10 3361 days 42%
Joana Frever 2/10 3362 days 17%
Carmen Pramstaller 10/10 3362 days 50%
Etienne Douse 7/10 3363 days 46%
Sophia Harnisch 9/10 3363 days 49%
Liza Braun 10/10 3363 days 50%
Dario Leyrer 10/10 3363 days 50%
Coral Dawson 10/10 3364 days 50%
Brianna Burd 9/10 3364 days 49%
Daniel Roedel 10/10 3369 days 50%
Jonathan Gourmel 8/10 3369 days 48%
Matte Stemkowitz 9/10 3370 days 49%
Lea and Emmanuel 9/10 3372 days 49%
Petru 8/10 3372 days 48%
Maxima Buisan 7/10 3372 days 45%
Miriam Hack 8/10 3373 days 48%
Annika Locker 10/10 3376 days 49%
Livia and Dave 8/10 3377 days 48%
Nils 7/10 3382 days 45%
Marie Brauherr 10/10 3382 days 49%
Vanesha Patel 9/10 3383 days 48%
Jenny and Till 10/10 3384 days 49%
Clare Pickford 9/10 3385 days 48%
Jonathan and Gulsen 10/10 3387 days 48%
Nico 8/10 3387 days 47%
Julie 10/10 3406 days 47%
Elodie and Gestan 8/10 3409 days 46%
Julia Huesam 8/10 3414 days 46%
Sophie Giblin 9/10 3415 days 46%
Sebastian and Susanna 9/10 3417 days 46%
Sammy Cronin 8/10 3422 days 45%
Fabian Dilly 8/10 3433 days 45%
Ahmed Mohsen Aly 10/10 3451 days 45%
Bob Fontaine 10/10 3551 days 39%
Johanna Lidel 10/10 3684 days 31%
Amelie Eschenbach 10/10 3684 days 31%
Anna Birzle 10/10 3684 days 31%
Elisabeth Ringswandl 9/10 3685 days 31%
Thomas Haslbeck 7/10 3685 days 28%
Miriam Burchartz 9/10 3686 days 31%
Ken 9/10 3687 days 30%
Michael Stibor 7/10 3688 days 28%
Nicol 8/10 3725 days 28%
Jamie McArthur 9/10 3747 days 27%
Sibylle and Nadine 8/10 3778 days 25%
Marion and Ralf 9/10 3787 days 25%
Fiona Hawkins 7/10 4024 days 10%
Alex 10/10 4040 days 10%
Becky 9/10 4040 days 10%
Josefin Lind 9/10 4041 days 10%
Herman Holmgist 10/10 4041 days 10%
Carla Oyarzun 9/10 4044 days 10%
Paolo Cases 8/10 4044 days 10%
Lena Hanhart 10/10 4059 days 9%
Vanessa 4/10 4059 days 3%
Tom Hill 9/10 4060 days 9%
Anna Sternberg 6/10 4063 days 6%
Tobias Thull 8/10 4065 days 8%
Katja Kraffzik 10/10 4066 days 9%
Lukas Lehmeyer 8/10 4068 days 8%
Mark Hofmann 9/10 4068 days 8%
Anne Courtenay 8/10 4069 days 8%
Andreas Jung 10/10 4069 days 8%
Cindy Benayoum 9/10 4073 days 8%
Ann-Kathrin Wacker 10/10 4073 days 8%
Lena Wacker 8/10 4073 days 8%
Rikke Petersen 10/10 4080 days 8%
Roland Beer 10/10 4109 days 6%
Rupert 10/10 4116 days 6%
Alineet Gautier 10/10 4121 days 5%
Marie Lillieskold 9/10 4121 days 5%
Alexandra Kupper 8/10 4124 days 5%
Brian 10/10 4213 days 0%
FlyingKiwiGirl 7/10 4396 days 18%
Annika Schmidt 9/10 4401 days 20%
Tim Vennewold 8/10 4414 days 20%
Steen Rausmussen 9/10 4425 days 20%
Jeremy Eng 7/10 4427 days 18%
Julian Roots 9/10 4427 days 20%
Sohie 9/10 4432 days 20%
Neele & Philipp 7/10 4437 days 18%
Soren and Inelase Lindhardbell 10/10 4499 days 20%
Soren and Inelase Lindhardbell 10/10 4499 days 20%
Julien Bocherens 8/10 4503 days 20%
Joroen Borkert 8/10 4504 days 20%
Lauret Stulemeyer 8/10 4505 days 20%
Ralph and Leonie 8/10 4509 days 20%
Fahl 10/10 4516 days 20%
tanyap 7/10 4517 days 18%
Terry Coles 9/10 4517 days 20%
Alexander Klein 8/10 4521 days 20%
Adam Hassan 7/10 4522 days 18%
Gerard van de Ven 7/10 4522 days 18%
Doan 9/10 4522 days 20%
Claudia Mueller 10/10 4522 days 20%
Presot 10/10 4522 days 20%
Lutz Huuemorder 10/10 4523 days 20%
Faassen 9/10 4525 days 20%
Julie Lamart 9/10 4526 days 20%
Behrens 10/10 4526 days 20%
Henzen 8/10 4526 days 20%
Roshnie 8/10 4527 days 20%
The Mowbrays 8/10 4527 days 20%
Stevie 8/10 4529 days 20%
Thys 8/10 4529 days 20%
Rob Klauer 9/10 4780 days 20%
Selwindt 9/10 4786 days 20%
Michael Touzer 9/10 4787 days 20%
Steven Hill 9/10 4788 days 20%
Susanne A 7/10 4789 days 18%
Malena 7/10 4792 days 18%
Daniel 10/10 4796 days 20%
Romla 8/10 4799 days 20%
Ronald Veldman 8/10 4799 days 20%
Tom Pratt 9/10 4804 days 20%
Stephan Wolter 10/10 4806 days 20%
Stefan 9/10 4806 days 20%
Gabriele Wendt 10/10 4806 days 20%
Danielle & Jobbe 7/10 4806 days 18%
Langerak 8/10 4808 days 20%
Lepied 9/10 4808 days 20%
Nic Roggeman 9/10 4808 days 20%
Ralf Glaser 10/10 4809 days 20%
Maria Dietrich 8/10 4816 days 20%
Mike1952 9/10 4821 days 20%
Henriette Haugan 8/10 4834 days 20%
Fred Saunders 9/10 4847 days 20%
Pietsch 9/10 4887 days 20%
Marc & Pauline 9/10 4889 days 20%
Marek Woznica 9/10 4890 days 20%
Willem & Lilian 8/10 4892 days 20%
Andy Lever 10/10 4898 days 20%
Herman Plasman 7/10 4898 days 18%
Waldemar Schuler 9/10 4899 days 20%
Theresa 10/10 4899 days 20%
Anders Rathleff 9/10 4899 days 20%
Lardy 9/10 4900 days 20%
JadesWorld 8/10 4913 days 20%
Gary A 9/10 4913 days 20%
Sid 9/10 4913 days 20%
andrew_w 7/10 5127 days 18%
Julie Norton 9/10 5128 days 20%
Oliver Berg 8/10 5141 days 20%
Boi Sagarra 8/10 5141 days 20%
Hannah Roberts 10/10 5155 days 20%
Scheler 10/10 5157 days 20%
Gord Carnochan 10/10 5159 days 20%
Isabel & Tillmann 10/10 5161 days 20%
Adam Hayley 6/10 5170 days 16%
Kat Fleming 10/10 5172 days 20%
Luise Jaeger 10/10 5176 days 20%
Russell Stevens 10/10 5176 days 20%
F Horrex 8/10 5177 days 20%
Jessie Currie 10/10 5177 days 20%
Michael Eck 10/10 5179 days 20%
David and Karin 10/10 5179 days 20%
Brandt 8/10 5183 days 20%
Chamton 9/10 5186 days 20%
Jenny 9/10 5187 days 20%
BigSis 9/10 5370 days 20%
Sophie & Joffrey 9/10 5457 days 20%
kempt 8/10 5462 days 20%
Matt Roper 9/10 5514 days 20%
Matilda Hansson 9/10 5514 days 20%
Kay Beaumont 10/10 5525 days 20%
Mark Ashton 10/10 5529 days 20%
S Millet 9/10 5529 days 20%
Gail Mckinstry 9/10 5529 days 20%
Elisabeth Egerup 10/10 5530 days 20%
John Harrison 8/10 5530 days 20%
Peter Koeck 10/10 5532 days 20%
Jakob Pedersen 10/10 5533 days 20%
Vandeput 9/10 5537 days 20%
Fam Leinden 8/10 5545 days 20%
Lisa Beauchemin 10/10 5546 days 20%
Helen Power 8/10 5546 days 20%
Mick Thexton 10/10 5546 days 20%
Jens van Evp 10/10 5547 days 20%
Max Van der Zalm 8/10 5547 days 20%
Belinda Godhard 1/10 5548 days 2%
Veltmaat NL 7/10 5557 days 18%
Jakob Jurgen 8/10 5565 days 20%
deanlaw 10/10 5596 days 20%
menzel 10/10 5596 days 20%
timgr 8/10 5598 days 20%
Lynn Maguire 10/10 5599 days 20%
blokzyl 8/10 5602 days 20%
braunweiler 9/10 5602 days 20%
jameswhite 8/10 5605 days 20%
hofstetterf 10/10 5611 days 20%
Emma Coltman 10/10 5615 days 20%
rolandop 10/10 5617 days 20%
Antje & Sascha Häusler 10/10 5617 days 20%
Andreas Sterki 8/10 5621 days 20%
Susanne Santer 9/10 5621 days 20%
Richard Kesteleyn 8/10 5621 days 20%
Christy 8/10 5623 days 20%
Ricarda 9/10 5623 days 20%
Malinka Nuefeld 6/10 5623 days 16%
Geoff Renshaw 9/10 5624 days 20%
Jessica Clarisse 9/10 5625 days 20%
Lionel Mouesca 10/10 5625 days 20%
Ton Buil 9/10 5625 days 20%
Mike 9/10 5625 days 20%
Wim Put 8/10 5639 days 20%
BryonyS 10/10 5845 days 20%
BouterG 10/10 5853 days 20%
CeesVanW 8/10 5854 days 20%
mikestep 10/10 5857 days 20%
Martien van Brakel 8/10 5857 days 20%
Arjan Muis 9/10 5859 days 20%
DaveV 9/10 5873 days 20%
AmyBarrett 10/10 5873 days 20%
DamienM 10/10 5873 days 20%
StefanGermany1 10/10 5875 days 20%
FiensG 8/10 5876 days 20%
OdiliaF 10/10 5876 days 20%
Ralph Boese 8/10 5877 days 20%
BrendaM 10/10 6238 days 20%
AlanN316 8/10 6238 days 20%

Adjustments

No Adjustment

Several adjustments to the weighted average may be added to improve relevancy and credibility. Cathedral Cove Walk does not meet the criteria for any of these adjustments to apply.

Balancing Adjustment

1.29% 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 folk 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

89%

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.