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G'day, 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 2493 days 100%
Matt McCloskey 9/10 2687 days 88%
Matthias and Adriane 8/10 2955 days 71%
Rachael Gray 7/10 2985 days 65%
Martin Fersebner 7/10 2992 days 65%
Chaulet 9/10 2997 days 70%
Breanna Alexander 7/10 2998 days 65%
Clementine 10/10 3021 days 69%
Claudia Schaefer 8/10 3023 days 67%
Gretha 10/10 3029 days 69%
Peter 9/10 3029 days 68%
Mireia Sanchez 10/10 3031 days 68%
Michael 8/10 3037 days 67%
Kees Mol 10/10 3040 days 68%
Alicia Speisekorn-Gil 8/10 3045 days 66%
David Santos 9/10 3048 days 67%
Dominique 7/10 3051 days 62%
Heike Buchmann 8/10 3051 days 66%
Kat 9/10 3052 days 66%
Ulf 9/10 3054 days 66%
Matthew Long 7/10 3054 days 62%
S Webb 10/10 3054 days 67%
Marie Christ 10/10 3072 days 66%
Frederik Fuchs 10/10 3073 days 66%
Anne 10/10 3087 days 65%
Leigh Dodds 9/10 3097 days 64%
Elizabeth Braidotti 10/10 3137 days 62%
Bernd Muller 8/10 3264 days 53%
Benjamin Leboucq 9/10 3283 days 53%
Adrien Richard 9/10 3283 days 53%
Sophie Rosenberg 10/10 3285 days 54%
Alexie Lion 9/10 3286 days 53%
Jan Berendsen 10/10 3288 days 53%
Jorge Anderson 10/10 3288 days 53%
Simon Schatz 7/10 3290 days 49%
Camilla Geert 7/10 3295 days 49%
Eline 8/10 3299 days 51%
Luala F 10/10 3302 days 53%
Math Meyer 10/10 3303 days 52%
Virginia Saez 10/10 3303 days 52%
Gessica 8/10 3303 days 51%
Nico Neubauer 7/10 3305 days 48%
Doerte 10/10 3307 days 52%
Benjamin Nager 8/10 3313 days 51%
Julie Miehling 9/10 3314 days 51%
Nico Wedel 9/10 3314 days 51%
Lauren Dinnage 8/10 3315 days 51%
Steve Barnwell 8/10 3315 days 51%
Alex Schott 9/10 3315 days 51%
Andrea Le Stunff 10/10 3316 days 52%
Sunja Abbe 10/10 3318 days 52%
Olga Barathova 9/10 3319 days 51%
Matias Santos 10/10 3321 days 51%
Mira Huckfield 7/10 3321 days 47%
Aaron Stalley 8/10 3323 days 50%
Marcus 7/10 3329 days 47%
Johannes Koch 7/10 3329 days 47%
Louise Boje 10/10 3331 days 51%
Natasha Harbinson 10/10 3333 days 51%
Maddalena Buffoni 9/10 3334 days 50%
Clara Loizeil 9/10 3335 days 50%
Patrick Veber 5/10 3335 days 36%
Hake Dolce 10/10 3336 days 51%
Julien Sene 9/10 3341 days 50%
Sari Aroalho 8/10 3344 days 49%
Briony 8/10 3344 days 49%
Richard Starkeq 6/10 3345 days 42%
Joana Frever 2/10 3346 days 17%
Carmen Pramstaller 10/10 3346 days 50%
Etienne Douse 7/10 3347 days 46%
Sophia Harnisch 9/10 3347 days 49%
Liza Braun 10/10 3347 days 50%
Dario Leyrer 10/10 3347 days 50%
Coral Dawson 10/10 3348 days 50%
Brianna Burd 9/10 3348 days 49%
Daniel Roedel 10/10 3353 days 50%
Jonathan Gourmel 8/10 3353 days 48%
Matte Stemkowitz 9/10 3354 days 49%
Lea and Emmanuel 9/10 3356 days 49%
Petru 8/10 3356 days 48%
Maxima Buisan 7/10 3356 days 45%
Miriam Hack 8/10 3357 days 48%
Annika Locker 10/10 3360 days 49%
Livia and Dave 8/10 3361 days 48%
Nils 7/10 3366 days 45%
Marie Brauherr 10/10 3366 days 49%
Vanesha Patel 9/10 3367 days 48%
Jenny and Till 10/10 3368 days 49%
Clare Pickford 9/10 3369 days 48%
Jonathan and Gulsen 10/10 3371 days 48%
Nico 8/10 3371 days 47%
Julie 10/10 3390 days 47%
Elodie and Gestan 8/10 3393 days 46%
Julia Huesam 8/10 3398 days 46%
Sophie Giblin 9/10 3399 days 46%
Sebastian and Susanna 9/10 3401 days 46%
Sammy Cronin 8/10 3406 days 45%
Fabian Dilly 8/10 3417 days 45%
Ahmed Mohsen Aly 10/10 3435 days 45%
Bob Fontaine 10/10 3535 days 39%
Johanna Lidel 10/10 3668 days 31%
Amelie Eschenbach 10/10 3668 days 31%
Anna Birzle 10/10 3668 days 31%
Elisabeth Ringswandl 9/10 3669 days 31%
Thomas Haslbeck 7/10 3669 days 28%
Miriam Burchartz 9/10 3670 days 31%
Ken 9/10 3671 days 30%
Michael Stibor 7/10 3672 days 28%
Nicol 8/10 3709 days 28%
Jamie McArthur 9/10 3731 days 27%
Sibylle and Nadine 8/10 3762 days 25%
Marion and Ralf 9/10 3771 days 25%
Fiona Hawkins 7/10 4008 days 10%
Alex 10/10 4024 days 10%
Becky 9/10 4024 days 10%
Josefin Lind 9/10 4025 days 10%
Herman Holmgist 10/10 4025 days 10%
Carla Oyarzun 9/10 4028 days 10%
Paolo Cases 8/10 4028 days 10%
Lena Hanhart 10/10 4043 days 9%
Vanessa 4/10 4043 days 2%
Tom Hill 9/10 4044 days 9%
Anna Sternberg 6/10 4047 days 6%
Tobias Thull 8/10 4049 days 8%
Katja Kraffzik 10/10 4050 days 9%
Lukas Lehmeyer 8/10 4052 days 8%
Mark Hofmann 9/10 4052 days 8%
Anne Courtenay 8/10 4053 days 8%
Andreas Jung 10/10 4053 days 8%
Cindy Benayoum 9/10 4057 days 8%
Ann-Kathrin Wacker 10/10 4057 days 8%
Lena Wacker 8/10 4057 days 8%
Rikke Petersen 10/10 4064 days 8%
Roland Beer 10/10 4093 days 6%
Rupert 10/10 4100 days 6%
Alineet Gautier 10/10 4105 days 5%
Marie Lillieskold 9/10 4105 days 5%
Alexandra Kupper 8/10 4108 days 5%
Brian 10/10 4197 days 0%
FlyingKiwiGirl 7/10 4380 days 17%
Annika Schmidt 9/10 4385 days 19%
Tim Vennewold 8/10 4398 days 19%
Steen Rausmussen 9/10 4409 days 19%
Jeremy Eng 7/10 4411 days 17%
Julian Roots 9/10 4411 days 19%
Sohie 9/10 4416 days 19%
Neele & Philipp 7/10 4421 days 17%
Soren and Inelase Lindhardbell 10/10 4483 days 19%
Soren and Inelase Lindhardbell 10/10 4483 days 19%
Julien Bocherens 8/10 4487 days 19%
Joroen Borkert 8/10 4488 days 19%
Lauret Stulemeyer 8/10 4489 days 19%
Ralph and Leonie 8/10 4493 days 19%
Fahl 10/10 4500 days 19%
tanyap 7/10 4501 days 17%
Terry Coles 9/10 4501 days 19%
Alexander Klein 8/10 4505 days 19%
Adam Hassan 7/10 4506 days 17%
Gerard van de Ven 7/10 4506 days 17%
Doan 9/10 4506 days 19%
Claudia Mueller 10/10 4506 days 19%
Presot 10/10 4506 days 19%
Lutz Huuemorder 10/10 4507 days 19%
Faassen 9/10 4509 days 19%
Julie Lamart 9/10 4510 days 19%
Behrens 10/10 4510 days 19%
Henzen 8/10 4510 days 19%
Roshnie 8/10 4511 days 19%
The Mowbrays 8/10 4511 days 19%
Stevie 8/10 4513 days 19%
Thys 8/10 4513 days 19%
Rob Klauer 9/10 4764 days 19%
Selwindt 9/10 4770 days 19%
Michael Touzer 9/10 4771 days 19%
Steven Hill 9/10 4772 days 19%
Susanne A 7/10 4773 days 17%
Malena 7/10 4776 days 17%
Daniel 10/10 4780 days 19%
Romla 8/10 4783 days 19%
Ronald Veldman 8/10 4783 days 19%
Tom Pratt 9/10 4788 days 19%
Stephan Wolter 10/10 4790 days 19%
Stefan 9/10 4790 days 19%
Gabriele Wendt 10/10 4790 days 19%
Danielle & Jobbe 7/10 4790 days 17%
Langerak 8/10 4792 days 19%
Lepied 9/10 4792 days 19%
Nic Roggeman 9/10 4792 days 19%
Ralf Glaser 10/10 4793 days 19%
Maria Dietrich 8/10 4800 days 19%
Mike1952 9/10 4805 days 19%
Henriette Haugan 8/10 4818 days 19%
Fred Saunders 9/10 4831 days 19%
Pietsch 9/10 4871 days 19%
Marc & Pauline 9/10 4873 days 19%
Marek Woznica 9/10 4874 days 19%
Willem & Lilian 8/10 4876 days 19%
Andy Lever 10/10 4882 days 19%
Herman Plasman 7/10 4882 days 17%
Waldemar Schuler 9/10 4883 days 19%
Theresa 10/10 4883 days 19%
Anders Rathleff 9/10 4883 days 19%
Lardy 9/10 4884 days 19%
JadesWorld 8/10 4897 days 19%
Gary A 9/10 4897 days 19%
Sid 9/10 4897 days 19%
andrew_w 7/10 5111 days 17%
Julie Norton 9/10 5112 days 19%
Oliver Berg 8/10 5125 days 19%
Boi Sagarra 8/10 5125 days 19%
Hannah Roberts 10/10 5139 days 19%
Scheler 10/10 5141 days 19%
Gord Carnochan 10/10 5143 days 19%
Isabel & Tillmann 10/10 5145 days 19%
Adam Hayley 6/10 5154 days 15%
Kat Fleming 10/10 5156 days 19%
Luise Jaeger 10/10 5160 days 19%
Russell Stevens 10/10 5160 days 19%
F Horrex 8/10 5161 days 19%
Jessie Currie 10/10 5161 days 19%
Michael Eck 10/10 5163 days 19%
David and Karin 10/10 5163 days 19%
Brandt 8/10 5167 days 19%
Chamton 9/10 5170 days 19%
Jenny 9/10 5171 days 19%
BigSis 9/10 5354 days 19%
Sophie & Joffrey 9/10 5441 days 19%
kempt 8/10 5446 days 19%
Matt Roper 9/10 5498 days 19%
Matilda Hansson 9/10 5498 days 19%
Kay Beaumont 10/10 5509 days 19%
Mark Ashton 10/10 5513 days 19%
S Millet 9/10 5513 days 19%
Gail Mckinstry 9/10 5513 days 19%
Elisabeth Egerup 10/10 5514 days 19%
John Harrison 8/10 5514 days 19%
Peter Koeck 10/10 5516 days 19%
Jakob Pedersen 10/10 5517 days 19%
Vandeput 9/10 5521 days 19%
Fam Leinden 8/10 5529 days 19%
Lisa Beauchemin 10/10 5530 days 19%
Helen Power 8/10 5530 days 19%
Mick Thexton 10/10 5530 days 19%
Jens van Evp 10/10 5531 days 19%
Max Van der Zalm 8/10 5531 days 19%
Belinda Godhard 1/10 5532 days 1%
Veltmaat NL 7/10 5541 days 17%
Jakob Jurgen 8/10 5549 days 19%
deanlaw 10/10 5580 days 19%
menzel 10/10 5580 days 19%
timgr 8/10 5582 days 19%
Lynn Maguire 10/10 5583 days 19%
blokzyl 8/10 5586 days 19%
braunweiler 9/10 5586 days 19%
jameswhite 8/10 5589 days 19%
hofstetterf 10/10 5595 days 19%
Emma Coltman 10/10 5599 days 19%
rolandop 10/10 5601 days 19%
Antje & Sascha Häusler 10/10 5601 days 19%
Andreas Sterki 8/10 5605 days 19%
Susanne Santer 9/10 5605 days 19%
Richard Kesteleyn 8/10 5605 days 19%
Christy 8/10 5607 days 19%
Ricarda 9/10 5607 days 19%
Malinka Nuefeld 6/10 5607 days 15%
Geoff Renshaw 9/10 5608 days 19%
Jessica Clarisse 9/10 5609 days 19%
Lionel Mouesca 10/10 5609 days 19%
Ton Buil 9/10 5609 days 19%
Mike 9/10 5609 days 19%
Wim Put 8/10 5623 days 19%
BryonyS 10/10 5829 days 19%
BouterG 10/10 5837 days 19%
CeesVanW 8/10 5838 days 19%
mikestep 10/10 5841 days 19%
Martien van Brakel 8/10 5841 days 19%
Arjan Muis 9/10 5843 days 19%
DaveV 9/10 5857 days 19%
AmyBarrett 10/10 5857 days 19%
DamienM 10/10 5857 days 19%
StefanGermany1 10/10 5859 days 19%
FiensG 8/10 5860 days 19%
OdiliaF 10/10 5860 days 19%
Ralph Boese 8/10 5861 days 19%
BrendaM 10/10 6222 days 19%
AlanN316 8/10 6222 days 19%

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.