Ranking Score Explained

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 Turakina Beach Camp / Koitiata Camping Ground.

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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Turakina Beach Camp / Koitiata Camping Ground

Valid Reviews

51 Valid Reviews

The Turakina Beach Camp / Koitiata Camping Ground experience has a total of 52 reviews. There are 51 valid reviews that are included when calculating the ranking score and 1 invalid review 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 51 valid reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 21
41%
9/10 11
22%
8/10 13
25%
7/10 4
8%
6/10 2
4%
5/10 0
0%
4/10 0
0%
3/10 0
0%
2/10 0
0%
1/10 0
0%

88.82% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Turakina Beach Camp / Koitiata Camping Ground valid reviews is 88.82% and is based on 51 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

4 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 51 valid reviews, the experience has 4 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.

Below is the distribution of ratings for the 4 face-to-face reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 2
50%
9/10 0
0%
8/10 1
25%
7/10 0
0%
6/10 1
25%
5/10 0
0%
4/10 0
0%
3/10 0
0%
2/10 0
0%
1/10 0
0%

85.00% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Turakina Beach Camp / Koitiata Camping Ground face-to-face reviews is 85.00% and is based on 4 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.

Weighted Average

90.33%

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
golden menu 6/10 32 days 87%
Maree Cairns 10/10 124 days 100%
Isabel 10/10 185 days 99%
Lauren 10/10 275 days 97%
Jan 8/10 275 days 95%
Peter 8/10 367 days 91%
Wendy Williams 10/10 581 days 81%
CW 10/10 671 days 75%
PAULA WALLACE 9/10 671 days 74%
Frauke Austermann 10/10 702 days 72%
MissRed 7/10 1036 days 38%
Stell 10/10 1067 days 38%
Kat Warnicke 8/10 1523 days 10%
Boardwalk Blss 7/10 1585 days 8%
Achim 10/10 1736 days 5%
Jenny 10/10 1828 days 5%
Phil 10/10 1889 days 5%
Olsenwood family 8/10 1951 days 4%
Brian 8/10 2012 days 4%
I. Ionescu 8/10 2042 days 4%
Luke Thomson 9/10 2073 days 4%
MaryCC 10/10 2132 days 4%
Jakob Simons 10/10 2193 days 4%
Gab and Anna 10/10 2407 days 4%
Jill McGrath 8/10 2461 days 2%
Alyson Reid 10/10 2480 days 4%
Annina Jarvinen 10/10 2516 days 2%
Kathrina Handschuh 9/10 2520 days 3%
Dalton Howden 9/10 2688 days 3%
Susan Boyton 9/10 2742 days 3%
Denise Hall 10/10 2785 days 3%
Tani Richards 10/10 2860 days 3%
Tanja Laube 9/10 3155 days 2%
Lucia 9/10 3197 days 2%
Aaron Cox 9/10 3197 days 2%
Dorota Tataruch 10/10 3230 days 2%
Max Brunner 9/10 3251 days 2%
Jeremy Little 10/10 3262 days 2%
Ahmed Mohsen Aly 8/10 3288 days 2%
Ron Web 8/10 3289 days 2%
Graeme Knox 10/10 3464 days 2%
Peter Pan 8/10 3473 days 2%
Sibylle and Nadine 10/10 3615 days 1%
van Linda Werner 6/10 3905 days 0%
Simon Wagner 9/10 3989 days 1%
arnaud paquet 8/10 3989 days 1%
GN100 9/10 4050 days 0%
Johannes J 8/10 4080 days 0%
David Restell 7/10 4142 days 0%
Will and Taylor 7/10 4264 days 0%
irishpaulqueenstown 8/10 4568 days 1%

Adjustments

No Adjustment

Several adjustments to the weighted average may be added to improve relevancy and credibility. Turakina Beach Camp / Koitiata Camping Ground does not meet the criteria for any of these adjustments to apply.

Balancing Adjustment

0.96% 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

91%

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.