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 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.

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Taumarunui Holiday Park

Valid Reviews

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.

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 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.

Weighted Average

71.25%

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 60 days 100%
Richard 3/10 242 days 53%
Philippe 1/10 484 days 35%
Carolyn Wilson 10/10 515 days 86%
Hilary Murphy 5/10 607 days 61%
Janet and Kevin 8/10 821 days 61%
Dissatisfied Local 1/10 1095 days 14%
Tanja 5/10 1156 days 23%
River 6/10 1307 days 18%
Colleen 8/10 1611 days 7%
Melanie 7/10 1795 days 5%
Dan 6/10 1825 days 4%
Nik 7/10 2342 days 4%
Shannon 8/10 2373 days 4%
Flatlanders 9/10 2707 days 3%
Merm 1/10 2738 days 1%
Kim 2/10 2738 days 1%
Peter 10/10 2952 days 3%
Lindsey Horton 10/10 3054 days 2%
Jye Hurrell 10/10 3130 days 2%
Anke Vehmeiers 9/10 3235 days 2%
Eric Tunnicliffe 10/10 3256 days 2%
Sijmen Vos 10/10 3389 days 2%
Alejandro Cano 10/10 3465 days 2%
Tom and Janet 9/10 3504 days 2%
Jenny Dickinson 10/10 3513 days 2%
Kevin Thompson 8/10 3650 days 1%
Sven Kraschinski 5/10 3734 days 1%
Volker Stroenisch 10/10 3738 days 1%
Tinna Flower 9/10 3742 days 1%
Paul Smith 6/10 3748 days 1%
Don 9/10 3771 days 1%
Christy Stead 5/10 3795 days 1%
Rob Brown 10/10 3803 days 1%
Kresten Skak 7/10 3825 days 1%
Jacqui 5/10 3902 days 1%
Yvonne Bell 9/10 3924 days 1%
Susan Chambers 8/10 4136 days 0%
Ines 8/10 4140 days 0%
Adam Taylor 10/10 4167 days 0%
tim harnisch 10/10 4167 days 0%
Sibylle and Nadine 9/10 4190 days 0%
Huw Harvey 10/10 4198 days 0%
Sidney Stokkers 8/10 4228 days 0%
Cedrick Poirier 4/10 4242 days 0%
Mike Fricker 6/10 4413 days 1%
Elise Boinnot 10/10 4501 days 0%
M & S Ross 10/10 4533 days 1%
Theresa Meredith 9/10 4533 days 1%
ManuKris 10/10 4533 days 1%
michael@tracey bennett 10/10 4533 days 1%
Graeme&Ann Bullock 10/10 4533 days 1%
Barbara Schädl 10/10 4564 days 1%
Doug Gerrard 9/10 4564 days 1%
Jonathan Bourla 10/10 4655 days 1%
Sue Clark 10/10 4778 days 1%
Mandy 10/10 4808 days 1%
Tomek 8/10 4839 days 1%
KDS_Holiday 10/10 4839 days 1%
allyson wilson 10/10 4867 days 1%
Janice Marinkovich 8/10 4867 days 1%
Katie T 10/10 4867 days 1%
Clive 8/10 4867 days 1%
Cabby 10/10 4867 days 1%
marilyncd 10/10 4898 days 1%
antje fricke 10/10 4898 days 1%
Matt Dobson 10/10 4898 days 1%
Fred and Carin 9/10 4898 days 1%
Jacksons 10/10 4898 days 1%
Christine196 10/10 4929 days 1%
Lisa81 10/10 5020 days 1%
akie64 10/10 5051 days 1%
evvoltura 10/10 5082 days 1%
lindsaynadine 10/10 5143 days 1%
Nepolo 10/10 5143 days 1%
Lindafd1 9/10 5173 days 1%
Yakker 10/10 5173 days 1%
Ute Rogawski 9/10 5225 days 0%
margaretblakeley 9/10 5233 days 1%
hermanverman 10/10 5264 days 1%
Ela 8/10 5264 days 1%
stevenkarlclark 10/10 5295 days 1%
impivaarajones 10/10 5295 days 1%
simone13 10/10 5295 days 1%
davedouglas 10/10 5295 days 1%
le60vin 10/10 5325 days 1%
Angela_Kay 10/10 5356 days 1%
patricio77 10/10 5356 days 1%
rjbenito 10/10 5356 days 1%
agustin 10/10 5356 days 1%
steve1234 10/10 5356 days 1%
forden 10/10 5417 days 1%
pig 10/10 5448 days 1%
tobygeorge 9/10 5509 days 1%
wxcooper 10/10 5509 days 1%
English_Campers 10/10 5539 days 1%
hopkinsfamily 9/10 5539 days 1%
ericn 10/10 5570 days 1%
TJD 10/10 5570 days 1%
amyrobertson 10/10 5570 days 1%
Bain 9/10 5598 days 1%
Kim Verschaffelt 10/10 5629 days 1%
richard___ilona 10/10 5629 days 1%
bls 10/10 5629 days 1%
clydewalshe 10/10 5629 days 1%
franciewalshe 10/10 5629 days 1%
kated371 10/10 5629 days 1%
ieb 10/10 5629 days 1%
ci600 9/10 5660 days 1%
kaye 10/10 5660 days 1%
Gerdefisherman 10/10 5690 days 1%
KiwiAngler 9/10 5690 days 1%
BJP 9/10 5690 days 1%
ThePresident 10/10 5690 days 1%
Andrea Hasenoehrl 10/10 5690 days 1%
cst 10/10 5721 days 1%
lalaishu 9/10 5782 days 1%
olgazurdo 10/10 5813 days 1%
MXNUT 8/10 5904 days 1%
dino3310 9/10 5904 days 1%
Caseye 1/10 5963 days 0%
FC46 1/10 5963 days 0%
HerrKlink 1/10 5963 days 0%
Cabin_fever 4/10 5963 days 0%
dadpole 3/10 5963 days 0%
Kazmeister 9/10 6055 days 1%
david 9/10 6312 days 0%

Adjustments

Several adjustments to the weighted average are added to improve relevancy and credibility. These adjustments apply equally to all experiences that meet the criteria.

Sample Size Adjustment

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.

Recent Reviews Adjustment

-0.72% Adjustment

There may be an adjustment if this experience hasn't received any reviews within the last 105 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 58 days. Adjustments are according to the following table.

Days Adjustment
55 -0.68%
56 -0.69%
57 -0.70%
58 -0.72%
59 -0.73%
60 -0.74%
61 -0.75%

Balancing Adjustment

6.70% 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.

Final Ranking Score

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.