Ranking Score Explained

Kia ora, 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 Te Kopua Whanau 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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Te Kopua Whanau Camping Ground

Valid Reviews

45 Valid Reviews

The Te Kopua Whanau Camping Ground experience has a total of 48 reviews. There are 45 valid reviews that are included when calculating the ranking score and 3 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 45 valid reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 9
20%
9/10 8
18%
8/10 5
11%
7/10 8
18%
6/10 6
13%
5/10 3
7%
4/10 2
4%
3/10 4
9%
2/10 0
0%
1/10 0
0%

73.11% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Te Kopua Whanau Camping Ground valid reviews is 73.11% and is based on 45 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

5 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 45 valid reviews, the experience has 5 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.

Below is the distribution of ratings for the 5 face-to-face reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 1
20%
9/10 1
20%
8/10 0
0%
7/10 0
0%
6/10 1
20%
5/10 0
0%
4/10 0
0%
3/10 2
40%
2/10 0
0%
1/10 0
0%

62.00% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Te Kopua Whanau Camping Ground face-to-face reviews is 62.00% and is based on 5 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.

Weighted Average

74.36%

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
Teo 5/10 37 days 81%
Lea 7/10 37 days 98%
Howards 8/10 251 days 100%
Vojta 8/10 311 days 98%
Jorian 6/10 311 days 86%
Coral West 7/10 342 days 92%
Nalu 9/10 373 days 96%
Bobbie 7/10 526 days 83%
Taylor Russell 4/10 587 days 56%
Katie 9/10 617 days 82%
Cameron Hunter 7/10 676 days 73%
Cicada 10/10 982 days 48%
Emma 5/10 1013 days 34%
Taimi 10/10 1013 days 45%
Amelie 6/10 1072 days 34%
Mauro 9/10 1103 days 36%
Gemma 10/10 1406 days 16%
C Stafford 9/10 1437 days 14%
Rebecca 7/10 1559 days 9%
Michael 10/10 1621 days 8%
Dom 10/10 1772 days 5%
Reba 8/10 1772 days 5%
Bartezz 7/10 1834 days 5%
Zoe 9/10 2078 days 5%
Carolyn Jackson 10/10 2168 days 4%
Ma 10/10 2199 days 4%
R Stuart Nicholson 4/10 2199 days 3%
Annice 8/10 2443 days 4%
Spike Thorne 7/10 2455 days 4%
Eddie Howell 9/10 2569 days 4%
Manuela Loza 6/10 2977 days 2%
Connie Hopper 10/10 3178 days 2%
Loic Journet 6/10 3240 days 2%
Chiara Magelli 5/10 3461 days 1%
Jason Robus 3/10 3484 days 1%
Amber Johnson 9/10 3629 days 1%
Graeme 3/10 3629 days 1%
Patricia Erni 3/10 3913 days 0%
Andrew Luke 3/10 3949 days 0%
Jordan and Marielle 6/10 3994 days 1%
Katherine 10/10 4293 days 0%
Ben Martin 9/10 4293 days 0%
Will and Taylor 7/10 4328 days 0%
Clive 8/10 4328 days 0%
Bart Slingerland 6/10 4649 days 0%

Adjustments

No Adjustment

Several adjustments to the weighted average may be added to improve relevancy and credibility. Te Kopua Whanau Camping Ground does not meet the criteria for any of these adjustments to apply.

Balancing Adjustment

4.90% 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

79%

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.