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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 Taumarunui Holiday Park.
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.
127 Valid Reviews
The Taumarunui Holiday Park experience has a total of 128 reviews. There are 127 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 127 valid reviews:
| Rating | Count | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/10 | 68 |
|
54% |
| 9/10 | 24 |
|
19% |
| 8/10 | 12 |
|
9% |
| 7/10 | 3 |
|
2% |
| 6/10 | 4 |
|
3% |
| 5/10 | 5 |
|
4% |
| 4/10 | 2 |
|
2% |
| 3/10 | 2 |
|
2% |
| 2/10 | 1 |
|
1% |
| 1/10 | 6 |
|
5% |
85.35% Average
The raw data average (mean) for all the Taumarunui Holiday Park valid reviews is 85.35% and is based on 127 valid reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here as a comparison to the weighted average.
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 127 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 | 3 |
|
60% |
| 8/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 7/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 6/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 5/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 4/10 | 1 |
|
20% |
| 3/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 2/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 1/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
82.00% Average
The raw data average (mean) for all the Taumarunui Holiday Park face-to-face reviews is 82.00% 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.
71.36%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LN | 9/10 | 80 days | 100% |
| Richard | 3/10 | 262 days | 53% |
| Philippe | 1/10 | 504 days | 35% |
| Carolyn Wilson | 10/10 | 535 days | 85% |
| Hilary Murphy | 5/10 | 627 days | 60% |
| Janet and Kevin | 8/10 | 841 days | 59% |
| Dissatisfied Local | 1/10 | 1115 days | 14% |
| Tanja | 5/10 | 1176 days | 22% |
| River | 6/10 | 1327 days | 17% |
| Colleen | 8/10 | 1631 days | 7% |
| Melanie | 7/10 | 1815 days | 5% |
| Dan | 6/10 | 1845 days | 4% |
| Nik | 7/10 | 2362 days | 4% |
| Shannon | 8/10 | 2393 days | 4% |
| Flatlanders | 9/10 | 2727 days | 3% |
| Merm | 1/10 | 2758 days | 1% |
| Kim | 2/10 | 2758 days | 1% |
| Peter | 10/10 | 2972 days | 3% |
| Lindsey Horton | 10/10 | 3074 days | 2% |
| Jye Hurrell | 10/10 | 3150 days | 2% |
| Anke Vehmeiers | 9/10 | 3255 days | 2% |
| Eric Tunnicliffe | 10/10 | 3276 days | 2% |
| Sijmen Vos | 10/10 | 3409 days | 2% |
| Alejandro Cano | 10/10 | 3485 days | 2% |
| Tom and Janet | 9/10 | 3524 days | 2% |
| Jenny Dickinson | 10/10 | 3533 days | 2% |
| Kevin Thompson | 8/10 | 3671 days | 1% |
| Sven Kraschinski | 5/10 | 3754 days | 1% |
| Volker Stroenisch | 10/10 | 3758 days | 1% |
| Tinna Flower | 9/10 | 3763 days | 1% |
| Paul Smith | 6/10 | 3768 days | 1% |
| Don | 9/10 | 3792 days | 1% |
| Christy Stead | 5/10 | 3815 days | 1% |
| Rob Brown | 10/10 | 3823 days | 1% |
| Kresten Skak | 7/10 | 3845 days | 1% |
| Jacqui | 5/10 | 3922 days | 1% |
| Yvonne Bell | 9/10 | 3945 days | 1% |
| Susan Chambers | 8/10 | 4157 days | 0% |
| Ines | 8/10 | 4160 days | 0% |
| Adam Taylor | 10/10 | 4188 days | 0% |
| tim harnisch | 10/10 | 4188 days | 0% |
| Sibylle and Nadine | 9/10 | 4210 days | 0% |
| Huw Harvey | 10/10 | 4219 days | 0% |
| Sidney Stokkers | 8/10 | 4249 days | 0% |
| Cedrick Poirier | 4/10 | 4262 days | 0% |
| Mike Fricker | 6/10 | 4433 days | 1% |
| Elise Boinnot | 10/10 | 4521 days | 0% |
| M & S Ross | 10/10 | 4553 days | 1% |
| Theresa Meredith | 9/10 | 4553 days | 1% |
| ManuKris | 10/10 | 4553 days | 1% |
| michael@tracey bennett | 10/10 | 4553 days | 1% |
| Graeme&Ann Bullock | 10/10 | 4553 days | 1% |
| Barbara Schädl | 10/10 | 4584 days | 1% |
| Doug Gerrard | 9/10 | 4584 days | 1% |
| Jonathan Bourla | 10/10 | 4675 days | 1% |
| Sue Clark | 10/10 | 4798 days | 1% |
| Mandy | 10/10 | 4828 days | 1% |
| Tomek | 8/10 | 4859 days | 1% |
| KDS_Holiday | 10/10 | 4859 days | 1% |
| allyson wilson | 10/10 | 4887 days | 1% |
| Janice Marinkovich | 8/10 | 4887 days | 1% |
| Katie T | 10/10 | 4887 days | 1% |
| Clive | 8/10 | 4887 days | 1% |
| Cabby | 10/10 | 4887 days | 1% |
| marilyncd | 10/10 | 4918 days | 1% |
| antje fricke | 10/10 | 4918 days | 1% |
| Matt Dobson | 10/10 | 4918 days | 1% |
| Fred and Carin | 9/10 | 4918 days | 1% |
| Jacksons | 10/10 | 4918 days | 1% |
| Christine196 | 10/10 | 4949 days | 1% |
| Lisa81 | 10/10 | 5040 days | 1% |
| akie64 | 10/10 | 5071 days | 1% |
| evvoltura | 10/10 | 5102 days | 1% |
| lindsaynadine | 10/10 | 5163 days | 1% |
| Nepolo | 10/10 | 5163 days | 1% |
| Lindafd1 | 9/10 | 5193 days | 1% |
| Yakker | 10/10 | 5193 days | 1% |
| Ute Rogawski | 9/10 | 5245 days | 0% |
| margaretblakeley | 9/10 | 5253 days | 1% |
| hermanverman | 10/10 | 5284 days | 1% |
| Ela | 8/10 | 5284 days | 1% |
| stevenkarlclark | 10/10 | 5315 days | 1% |
| impivaarajones | 10/10 | 5315 days | 1% |
| simone13 | 10/10 | 5315 days | 1% |
| davedouglas | 10/10 | 5315 days | 1% |
| le60vin | 10/10 | 5345 days | 1% |
| Angela_Kay | 10/10 | 5376 days | 1% |
| patricio77 | 10/10 | 5376 days | 1% |
| rjbenito | 10/10 | 5376 days | 1% |
| agustin | 10/10 | 5376 days | 1% |
| steve1234 | 10/10 | 5376 days | 1% |
| forden | 10/10 | 5437 days | 1% |
| pig | 10/10 | 5468 days | 1% |
| tobygeorge | 9/10 | 5529 days | 1% |
| wxcooper | 10/10 | 5529 days | 1% |
| English_Campers | 10/10 | 5559 days | 1% |
| hopkinsfamily | 9/10 | 5559 days | 1% |
| ericn | 10/10 | 5590 days | 1% |
| TJD | 10/10 | 5590 days | 1% |
| amyrobertson | 10/10 | 5590 days | 1% |
| Bain | 9/10 | 5618 days | 1% |
| Kim Verschaffelt | 10/10 | 5649 days | 1% |
| richard___ilona | 10/10 | 5649 days | 1% |
| bls | 10/10 | 5649 days | 1% |
| clydewalshe | 10/10 | 5649 days | 1% |
| franciewalshe | 10/10 | 5649 days | 1% |
| kated371 | 10/10 | 5649 days | 1% |
| ieb | 10/10 | 5649 days | 1% |
| ci600 | 9/10 | 5680 days | 1% |
| kaye | 10/10 | 5680 days | 1% |
| Gerdefisherman | 10/10 | 5710 days | 1% |
| KiwiAngler | 9/10 | 5710 days | 1% |
| BJP | 9/10 | 5710 days | 1% |
| ThePresident | 10/10 | 5710 days | 1% |
| Andrea Hasenoehrl | 10/10 | 5710 days | 1% |
| cst | 10/10 | 5741 days | 1% |
| lalaishu | 9/10 | 5802 days | 1% |
| olgazurdo | 10/10 | 5833 days | 1% |
| MXNUT | 8/10 | 5924 days | 1% |
| dino3310 | 9/10 | 5924 days | 1% |
| Caseye | 1/10 | 5983 days | 0% |
| FC46 | 1/10 | 5983 days | 0% |
| HerrKlink | 1/10 | 5983 days | 0% |
| Cabin_fever | 4/10 | 5983 days | 1% |
| dadpole | 3/10 | 5983 days | 0% |
| Kazmeister | 9/10 | 6075 days | 1% |
| david | 9/10 | 6332 days | 0% |
Several adjustments to the weighted average are added to improve relevancy and credibility. These adjustments apply equally to all experiences that meet the criteria.
No Adjustment
A reasonable number of reviews are necessary in order for the average to be credible and for an experience to take a prime position within the ranking tables. As such, experiences with only a few reviews have a moderated score. This does not mean that the experience or the reviews can't be trusted. The Taumarunui Holiday Park experience has plenty of reviews and does not meet the criteria for any adjustment.
-0.84% Adjustment
There may be an adjustment if this experience hasn't received any reviews within the last 118 days. However the Taumarunui Holiday Park experience does not meet the criteria for any adjustment.
In addition, an experience's ranking score may be adjusted for each day there is no new ranking. After 1 day the adjustment comes into effect. The maximum number of days that can be adjusted for is 200 days. Due to the seasonal nature of many businesses, this adjustment is applied dynamically throughout the year.
The Taumarunui Holiday Park experience has been adjusted for 78 days. Adjustments are according to the following table.
| Days | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| … | … |
| 75 | -0.81% |
| 76 | -0.82% |
| 77 | -0.83% |
| 78 | -0.84% |
| 79 | -0.85% |
| 80 | -0.86% |
| 81 | -0.87% |
| … | … |
6.71% 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 customers 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.
77%
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.