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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.
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
91.75%
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 | 593 days | 100% |
| Laura | 10/10 | 2175 days | 5% |
| Mike Fricker | 10/10 | 2632 days | 4% |
| Jean Simonet | 10/10 | 2978 days | 3% |
| Katharina Koch | 9/10 | 3223 days | 3% |
| Ben | 10/10 | 3245 days | 3% |
| Lucille Laurent | 8/10 | 3262 days | 3% |
| Marie Gros | 8/10 | 3262 days | 3% |
| Teresa Baxter | 10/10 | 3269 days | 3% |
| Stuart Gange | 10/10 | 3293 days | 3% |
| Moreno | 10/10 | 3300 days | 3% |
| Richard Fox | 7/10 | 3315 days | 2% |
| Ferdinand | 6/10 | 3315 days | 2% |
| romain perroches | 10/10 | 3324 days | 3% |
| Gabriel Prerot | 9/10 | 3342 days | 2% |
| Bettina Enigl | 10/10 | 3342 days | 3% |
| Jessica Pein | 7/10 | 3345 days | 2% |
| Nicole | 7/10 | 3546 days | 2% |
| Sebastian Bauer | 7/10 | 3546 days | 2% |
| Nathalie Botz | 7/10 | 3546 days | 2% |
| Leopold Kern | 9/10 | 3549 days | 2% |
| Claire Baron | 8/10 | 3557 days | 2% |
| Sarah Grant | 7/10 | 3558 days | 2% |
| Unalte | 8/10 | 3559 days | 2% |
| Ellie Perkin | 7/10 | 3561 days | 2% |
| Jelmer Postma | 7/10 | 3561 days | 2% |
| Jenny Young | 10/10 | 3565 days | 2% |
| Maayke Reidsma | 9/10 | 3569 days | 2% |
| Brad Dobsky | 8/10 | 3570 days | 2% |
| Radim Halasz | 10/10 | 3571 days | 2% |
| Katerina Vobecka | 10/10 | 3571 days | 2% |
| Judith | 10/10 | 3577 days | 2% |
| Prisuille | 8/10 | 3577 days | 2% |
| Andre | 10/10 | 3579 days | 2% |
| Marco | 7/10 | 3584 days | 2% |
| Ben and Pauline | 10/10 | 3588 days | 2% |
| Andrea Tabaka | 9/10 | 3593 days | 2% |
| Matas Tirilis | 9/10 | 3593 days | 2% |
| Charlie Noon | 10/10 | 3603 days | 2% |
| Rebecca Oft | 8/10 | 3616 days | 2% |
| Philipp | 7/10 | 3616 days | 2% |
| Joanna and Shaun | 7/10 | 3616 days | 2% |
| Monica Mier | 10/10 | 3618 days | 2% |
| Elisabeth Grabner | 8/10 | 3623 days | 2% |
| Audrey Cavalerie | 8/10 | 3630 days | 2% |
| Amadeus van Schie | 9/10 | 3649 days | 2% |
| Roman and Liz | 10/10 | 3654 days | 2% |
| Maxi Woedel | 7/10 | 3669 days | 2% |
| James Webster | 10/10 | 3902 days | 1% |
| Miriam Burchartz | 9/10 | 3931 days | 1% |
| Lara Jakob | 10/10 | 3932 days | 1% |
| Darker | 10/10 | 3957 days | 1% |
| Manuela Opprecht | 9/10 | 3981 days | 1% |
| Katie Stillman | 9/10 | 4015 days | 1% |
| Heike Heller | 10/10 | 4285 days | 0% |
| Andreas Mouteiro | 10/10 | 4285 days | 0% |
| Benoit Irissou | 9/10 | 4307 days | 0% |
| Emilie Chanbon | 9/10 | 4338 days | 0% |
| Bella Danaher | 9/10 | 4344 days | 0% |
| Daniel Danamer | 9/10 | 4344 days | 0% |
| Renee van der Syde | 9/10 | 4350 days | 0% |
| Martha Horst | 8/10 | 4350 days | 0% |
| Sarah Strong | 10/10 | 4359 days | 0% |
| balesdent | 10/10 | 4363 days | 0% |
| Lara Mroseck | 8/10 | 4364 days | 0% |
| Robert Geissler | 10/10 | 4364 days | 0% |
| Mark Wiggington | 9/10 | 4635 days | 1% |
| Katya Verikaitis | 10/10 | 4665 days | 1% |
| Claire | 10/10 | 4672 days | 1% |
| Karine Scheers | 10/10 | 4673 days | 1% |
| Karina Gratz | 8/10 | 4676 days | 1% |
| Benjamin Geisser | 9/10 | 4677 days | 1% |
| Rachel Geisser | 9/10 | 4677 days | 1% |
| Lagunegrand | 8/10 | 4688 days | 1% |
| Loesje | 9/10 | 4731 days | 1% |
| David and Sally Wallis | 9/10 | 4753 days | 1% |
| Chew (Peter) | 8/10 | 4753 days | 1% |
| Joanna | 7/10 | 4768 days | 1% |
| Reijans | 9/10 | 4768 days | 1% |
| Jim and JoAnn Harllee | 10/10 | 4768 days | 1% |
| Eric and Jen Popma | 9/10 | 4772 days | 1% |
| C Schaap | 10/10 | 4773 days | 1% |
| Steve and Therese Dunne | 7/10 | 4774 days | 1% |
| Green UK | 9/10 | 5018 days | 1% |
| Andreas Schacke | 9/10 | 5022 days | 1% |
| Birds Tubbs | 10/10 | 5022 days | 1% |
| Nathan Sait | 10/10 | 5029 days | 1% |
| Toby Clark | 10/10 | 5029 days | 1% |
| Heath | 10/10 | 5033 days | 1% |
| Wil de Kubber | 9/10 | 5042 days | 1% |
| Vlutters | 8/10 | 5042 days | 1% |
| Inge & Erik | 9/10 | 5047 days | 1% |
| Martin & Dee Bellarby | 10/10 | 5047 days | 1% |
| Ryan Pynappels | 10/10 | 5048 days | 1% |
| Nico Schoots | 7/10 | 5048 days | 1% |
| Shirley Marshall | 10/10 | 5049 days | 1% |
| Mary Mitchell | 9/10 | 5051 days | 1% |
| Paul Fairbrass | 10/10 | 5059 days | 1% |
| David Blundell | 9/10 | 5061 days | 1% |
| Thomas Behy | 9/10 | 5064 days | 1% |
| Anika | 7/10 | 5065 days | 1% |
| Cick Pouw | 9/10 | 5065 days | 1% |
| Chris & Jen Spencer | 10/10 | 5077 days | 1% |
| kaikouranz | 10/10 | 5097 days | 1% |
| Marc & Pauline | 9/10 | 5134 days | 1% |
| Anna Bret | 9/10 | 5137 days | 1% |
| Berry | 10/10 | 5139 days | 1% |
| David & Audrey | 9/10 | 5143 days | 1% |
| Peter Spooner | 9/10 | 5145 days | 1% |
| Eveline Mestrom | 8/10 | 5148 days | 1% |
| Craig Hathaway | 8/10 | 5371 days | 1% |
| Sarah James | 10/10 | 5371 days | 1% |
| Nick Taylor | 10/10 | 5371 days | 1% |
| Christine | 10/10 | 5384 days | 1% |
| Ed Ronan | 9/10 | 5388 days | 1% |
| Stefanie | 10/10 | 5388 days | 1% |
| Charlie | 9/10 | 5389 days | 1% |
| Jason & Beth Berlin | 10/10 | 5389 days | 1% |
| Richard Gallichan | 7/10 | 5390 days | 1% |
| Veronica Warren | 8/10 | 5393 days | 1% |
| Maggie Leyland | 8/10 | 5393 days | 1% |
| henriket | 10/10 | 5397 days | 1% |
| Stephen Shearer | 10/10 | 5400 days | 1% |
| LandJ | 8/10 | 5403 days | 1% |
| Erin Dumbauld | 8/10 | 5404 days | 1% |
| Wendy Good | 8/10 | 5405 days | 1% |
| Andreas Fritesche | 10/10 | 5406 days | 1% |
| David Emerick | 9/10 | 5406 days | 1% |
| Petra Lehmann | 10/10 | 5408 days | 1% |
| Richard Brijs | 9/10 | 5414 days | 1% |
| Danny and Loreen Way | 8/10 | 5419 days | 1% |
| Roy Seymour | 8/10 | 5422 days | 1% |
| D Hoekstra | 9/10 | 5426 days | 1% |
| Ellen Thompson | 10/10 | 5426 days | 1% |
| Chris Chasemore | 7/10 | 5427 days | 1% |
| Marie | 9/10 | 5737 days | 1% |
| June | 9/10 | 5737 days | 1% |
| Zoe Norcross | 9/10 | 5754 days | 1% |
| Matthias & Ceristiane | 8/10 | 5755 days | 1% |
| Antoine Migault | 7/10 | 5758 days | 1% |
| Antoine Del | 8/10 | 5758 days | 1% |
| R Bakker | 7/10 | 5759 days | 1% |
| Trude | 10/10 | 5770 days | 1% |
| Brian_Val | 10/10 | 5771 days | 1% |
| Brian Morris | 10/10 | 5777 days | 1% |
| Thijs Schoemaker | 8/10 | 5782 days | 1% |
| Ulric | 8/10 | 5790 days | 1% |
| Johanna X | 9/10 | 5791 days | 1% |
| Petra Berrens | 7/10 | 5794 days | 1% |
| Markus | 7/10 | 5812 days | 1% |
| biene | 9/10 | 5842 days | 1% |
| martinab | 10/10 | 5842 days | 1% |
| mdarras | 9/10 | 5862 days | 1% |
| Bert Wierzy | 9/10 | 5865 days | 1% |
| Ruth Colmer | 10/10 | 5868 days | 1% |
| Katrin Wennin | 10/10 | 5869 days | 1% |
| Alan Riley | 9/10 | 5870 days | 1% |
| Gensen | 7/10 | 5884 days | 1% |
| SiljaH | 6/10 | 6092 days | 1% |
| RussC | 8/10 | 6094 days | 1% |
| Martina Bumiller | 9/10 | 6107 days | 1% |
| Andrew Smith | 7/10 | 6108 days | 1% |
| Christian Moll | 7/10 | 6118 days | 1% |
| Johannes & Jopke Fokkema | 8/10 | 6122 days | 1% |
| Nick | 6/10 | 6131 days | 1% |
| Amanda Williams | 9/10 | 6143 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.