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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 Kaikoura Peninsula Walkway.
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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Kaikoura Peninsula Walkway
Valid Reviews
166 Valid Reviews
The Kaikoura Peninsula Walkway experience has a total of 166 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 166 valid reviews:
| Rating | Count | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/10 | 59 |
|
36% |
| 9/10 | 49 |
|
30% |
| 8/10 | 30 |
|
18% |
| 7/10 | 25 |
|
15% |
| 6/10 | 3 |
|
2% |
| 5/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 4/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 3/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 2/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 1/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
88.19% Average
The raw data average (mean) for all the Kaikoura Peninsula Walkway valid reviews is 88.19% and is based on 166 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
152 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 166 valid reviews, the experience has 152 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.
Below is the distribution of ratings for the 152 face-to-face reviews:
| Rating | Count | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/10 | 51 |
|
34% |
| 9/10 | 46 |
|
30% |
| 8/10 | 28 |
|
18% |
| 7/10 | 25 |
|
16% |
| 6/10 | 2 |
|
1% |
| 5/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 4/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 3/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 2/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 1/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
87.83% Average
The raw data average (mean) for all the Kaikoura Peninsula Walkway face-to-face reviews is 87.83% and is based on 152 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.
Weighted Average
91.78%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Fricker | 10/10 | 339 days | 100% |
| Laura | 10/10 | 1921 days | 5% |
| Mike Fricker | 10/10 | 2378 days | 4% |
| Jean Simonet | 10/10 | 2724 days | 3% |
| Katharina Koch | 9/10 | 2969 days | 2% |
| Ben | 10/10 | 2991 days | 2% |
| Lucille Laurent | 8/10 | 3008 days | 2% |
| Marie Gros | 8/10 | 3008 days | 2% |
| Teresa Baxter | 10/10 | 3016 days | 2% |
| Stuart Gange | 10/10 | 3039 days | 2% |
| Moreno | 10/10 | 3046 days | 2% |
| Richard Fox | 7/10 | 3061 days | 2% |
| Ferdinand | 6/10 | 3061 days | 2% |
| romain perroches | 10/10 | 3070 days | 2% |
| Gabriel Prerot | 9/10 | 3088 days | 2% |
| Bettina Enigl | 10/10 | 3088 days | 2% |
| Jessica Pein | 7/10 | 3091 days | 2% |
| Nicole | 7/10 | 3292 days | 2% |
| Sebastian Bauer | 7/10 | 3292 days | 2% |
| Nathalie Botz | 7/10 | 3292 days | 2% |
| Leopold Kern | 9/10 | 3295 days | 2% |
| Claire Baron | 8/10 | 3303 days | 2% |
| Sarah Grant | 7/10 | 3304 days | 2% |
| Unalte | 8/10 | 3305 days | 2% |
| Ellie Perkin | 7/10 | 3307 days | 2% |
| Jelmer Postma | 7/10 | 3307 days | 2% |
| Jenny Young | 10/10 | 3311 days | 2% |
| Maayke Reidsma | 9/10 | 3315 days | 2% |
| Brad Dobsky | 8/10 | 3316 days | 2% |
| Radim Halasz | 10/10 | 3317 days | 2% |
| Katerina Vobecka | 10/10 | 3317 days | 2% |
| Judith | 10/10 | 3323 days | 2% |
| Prisuille | 8/10 | 3323 days | 2% |
| Andre | 10/10 | 3325 days | 2% |
| Marco | 7/10 | 3330 days | 2% |
| Ben and Pauline | 10/10 | 3334 days | 2% |
| Andrea Tabaka | 9/10 | 3339 days | 2% |
| Matas Tirilis | 9/10 | 3339 days | 2% |
| Charlie Noon | 10/10 | 3349 days | 2% |
| Rebecca Oft | 8/10 | 3362 days | 2% |
| Philipp | 7/10 | 3362 days | 1% |
| Joanna and Shaun | 7/10 | 3362 days | 1% |
| Monica Mier | 10/10 | 3364 days | 2% |
| Elisabeth Grabner | 8/10 | 3369 days | 2% |
| Audrey Cavalerie | 8/10 | 3376 days | 2% |
| Amadeus van Schie | 9/10 | 3395 days | 1% |
| Roman and Liz | 10/10 | 3400 days | 2% |
| Maxi Woedel | 7/10 | 3415 days | 1% |
| James Webster | 10/10 | 3648 days | 1% |
| Miriam Burchartz | 9/10 | 3677 days | 1% |
| Lara Jakob | 10/10 | 3678 days | 1% |
| Darker | 10/10 | 3703 days | 1% |
| Manuela Opprecht | 9/10 | 3727 days | 1% |
| Katie Stillman | 9/10 | 3761 days | 1% |
| Heike Heller | 10/10 | 4031 days | 0% |
| Andreas Mouteiro | 10/10 | 4031 days | 0% |
| Benoit Irissou | 9/10 | 4053 days | 0% |
| Emilie Chanbon | 9/10 | 4084 days | 0% |
| Bella Danaher | 9/10 | 4090 days | 0% |
| Daniel Danamer | 9/10 | 4090 days | 0% |
| Renee van der Syde | 9/10 | 4096 days | 0% |
| Martha Horst | 8/10 | 4096 days | 0% |
| Sarah Strong | 10/10 | 4105 days | 0% |
| balesdent | 10/10 | 4109 days | 0% |
| Lara Mroseck | 8/10 | 4110 days | 0% |
| Robert Geissler | 10/10 | 4110 days | 0% |
| Mark Wiggington | 9/10 | 4381 days | 1% |
| Katya Verikaitis | 10/10 | 4411 days | 1% |
| Claire | 10/10 | 4418 days | 1% |
| Karine Scheers | 10/10 | 4419 days | 1% |
| Karina Gratz | 8/10 | 4422 days | 0% |
| Benjamin Geisser | 9/10 | 4423 days | 1% |
| Rachel Geisser | 9/10 | 4423 days | 1% |
| Lagunegrand | 8/10 | 4434 days | 0% |
| Loesje | 9/10 | 4477 days | 1% |
| David and Sally Wallis | 9/10 | 4499 days | 1% |
| Chew (Peter) | 8/10 | 4499 days | 0% |
| Joanna | 7/10 | 4514 days | 0% |
| Reijans | 9/10 | 4514 days | 1% |
| Jim and JoAnn Harllee | 10/10 | 4514 days | 1% |
| Eric and Jen Popma | 9/10 | 4518 days | 1% |
| C Schaap | 10/10 | 4519 days | 1% |
| Steve and Therese Dunne | 7/10 | 4520 days | 0% |
| Green UK | 9/10 | 4764 days | 1% |
| Andreas Schacke | 9/10 | 4768 days | 1% |
| Birds Tubbs | 10/10 | 4768 days | 1% |
| Nathan Sait | 10/10 | 4775 days | 1% |
| Toby Clark | 10/10 | 4775 days | 1% |
| Heath | 10/10 | 4779 days | 1% |
| Wil de Kubber | 9/10 | 4788 days | 1% |
| Vlutters | 8/10 | 4788 days | 0% |
| Inge & Erik | 9/10 | 4793 days | 1% |
| Martin & Dee Bellarby | 10/10 | 4793 days | 1% |
| Ryan Pynappels | 10/10 | 4794 days | 1% |
| Nico Schoots | 7/10 | 4794 days | 0% |
| Shirley Marshall | 10/10 | 4795 days | 1% |
| Mary Mitchell | 9/10 | 4797 days | 1% |
| Paul Fairbrass | 10/10 | 4805 days | 1% |
| David Blundell | 9/10 | 4807 days | 1% |
| Thomas Behy | 9/10 | 4810 days | 1% |
| Anika | 7/10 | 4811 days | 0% |
| Cick Pouw | 9/10 | 4811 days | 1% |
| Chris & Jen Spencer | 10/10 | 4823 days | 1% |
| kaikouranz | 10/10 | 4843 days | 1% |
| Marc & Pauline | 9/10 | 4880 days | 1% |
| Anna Bret | 9/10 | 4883 days | 1% |
| Berry | 10/10 | 4885 days | 1% |
| David & Audrey | 9/10 | 4889 days | 1% |
| Peter Spooner | 9/10 | 4891 days | 1% |
| Eveline Mestrom | 8/10 | 4894 days | 0% |
| Craig Hathaway | 8/10 | 5117 days | 0% |
| Sarah James | 10/10 | 5117 days | 1% |
| Nick Taylor | 10/10 | 5117 days | 1% |
| Christine | 10/10 | 5130 days | 1% |
| Ed Ronan | 9/10 | 5134 days | 1% |
| Stefanie | 10/10 | 5134 days | 1% |
| Charlie | 9/10 | 5135 days | 1% |
| Jason & Beth Berlin | 10/10 | 5135 days | 1% |
| Richard Gallichan | 7/10 | 5136 days | 0% |
| Veronica Warren | 8/10 | 5139 days | 0% |
| Maggie Leyland | 8/10 | 5139 days | 0% |
| henriket | 10/10 | 5143 days | 1% |
| Stephen Shearer | 10/10 | 5146 days | 1% |
| LandJ | 8/10 | 5149 days | 0% |
| Erin Dumbauld | 8/10 | 5150 days | 0% |
| Wendy Good | 8/10 | 5151 days | 0% |
| Andreas Fritesche | 10/10 | 5152 days | 1% |
| David Emerick | 9/10 | 5152 days | 1% |
| Petra Lehmann | 10/10 | 5154 days | 1% |
| Richard Brijs | 9/10 | 5160 days | 1% |
| Danny and Loreen Way | 8/10 | 5165 days | 0% |
| Roy Seymour | 8/10 | 5168 days | 0% |
| D Hoekstra | 9/10 | 5172 days | 1% |
| Ellen Thompson | 10/10 | 5172 days | 1% |
| Chris Chasemore | 7/10 | 5173 days | 0% |
| Marie | 9/10 | 5483 days | 1% |
| June | 9/10 | 5483 days | 1% |
| Zoe Norcross | 9/10 | 5500 days | 1% |
| Matthias & Ceristiane | 8/10 | 5501 days | 0% |
| Antoine Migault | 7/10 | 5504 days | 0% |
| Antoine Del | 8/10 | 5504 days | 0% |
| R Bakker | 7/10 | 5505 days | 0% |
| Trude | 10/10 | 5516 days | 1% |
| Brian_Val | 10/10 | 5517 days | 1% |
| Brian Morris | 10/10 | 5523 days | 1% |
| Thijs Schoemaker | 8/10 | 5528 days | 0% |
| Ulric | 8/10 | 5536 days | 0% |
| Johanna X | 9/10 | 5537 days | 1% |
| Petra Berrens | 7/10 | 5540 days | 0% |
| Markus | 7/10 | 5558 days | 0% |
| biene | 9/10 | 5588 days | 1% |
| martinab | 10/10 | 5588 days | 1% |
| mdarras | 9/10 | 5608 days | 1% |
| Bert Wierzy | 9/10 | 5611 days | 1% |
| Ruth Colmer | 10/10 | 5614 days | 1% |
| Katrin Wennin | 10/10 | 5615 days | 1% |
| Alan Riley | 9/10 | 5616 days | 1% |
| Gensen | 7/10 | 5630 days | 0% |
| SiljaH | 6/10 | 5838 days | 0% |
| RussC | 8/10 | 5840 days | 0% |
| Martina Bumiller | 9/10 | 5853 days | 1% |
| Andrew Smith | 7/10 | 5854 days | 0% |
| Christian Moll | 7/10 | 5864 days | 0% |
| Johannes & Jopke Fokkema | 8/10 | 5868 days | 0% |
| Nick | 6/10 | 5877 days | 0% |
| Amanda Williams | 9/10 | 5889 days | 1% |
Adjustments
No Adjustment
Several adjustments to the weighted average may be added to improve relevancy and credibility. Kaikoura Peninsula Walkway does not meet the criteria for any of these adjustments to apply.
Balancing Adjustment
0.78% 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
93%
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.