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

71.72%

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 9/10 141 days 100%
Richard 3/10 323 days 52%
Philippe 1/10 565 days 34%
Carolyn Wilson 10/10 596 days 81%
Hilary Murphy 5/10 688 days 57%
Janet and Kevin 8/10 902 days 54%
Dissatisfied Local 1/10 1176 days 12%
Tanja 5/10 1237 days 19%
River 6/10 1388 days 14%
Colleen 8/10 1692 days 6%
Melanie 7/10 1876 days 5%
Dan 6/10 1906 days 4%
Nik 7/10 2423 days 4%
Shannon 8/10 2454 days 4%
Flatlanders 9/10 2788 days 3%
Merm 1/10 2819 days 1%
Kim 2/10 2819 days 1%
Peter 10/10 3033 days 3%
Lindsey Horton 10/10 3135 days 2%
Jye Hurrell 10/10 3211 days 2%
Anke Vehmeiers 9/10 3316 days 2%
Eric Tunnicliffe 10/10 3337 days 2%
Sijmen Vos 10/10 3470 days 2%
Alejandro Cano 10/10 3546 days 2%
Tom and Janet 9/10 3585 days 2%
Jenny Dickinson 10/10 3594 days 1%
Kevin Thompson 8/10 3731 days 1%
Sven Kraschinski 5/10 3815 days 1%
Volker Stroenisch 10/10 3819 days 1%
Tinna Flower 9/10 3823 days 1%
Paul Smith 6/10 3829 days 1%
Don 9/10 3852 days 1%
Christy Stead 5/10 3876 days 1%
Rob Brown 10/10 3884 days 1%
Kresten Skak 7/10 3906 days 1%
Jacqui 5/10 3983 days 1%
Yvonne Bell 9/10 4005 days 1%
Susan Chambers 8/10 4217 days 0%
Ines 8/10 4221 days 0%
Adam Taylor 10/10 4248 days 0%
tim harnisch 10/10 4248 days 0%
Sibylle and Nadine 9/10 4271 days 0%
Huw Harvey 10/10 4279 days 0%
Sidney Stokkers 8/10 4309 days 0%
Cedrick Poirier 4/10 4323 days 0%
Mike Fricker 6/10 4494 days 1%
Elise Boinnot 10/10 4582 days 1%
M & S Ross 10/10 4614 days 1%
Theresa Meredith 9/10 4614 days 1%
ManuKris 10/10 4614 days 1%
michael@tracey bennett 10/10 4614 days 1%
Graeme&Ann Bullock 10/10 4614 days 1%
Barbara Schädl 10/10 4645 days 1%
Doug Gerrard 9/10 4645 days 1%
Jonathan Bourla 10/10 4736 days 1%
Sue Clark 10/10 4859 days 1%
Mandy 10/10 4889 days 1%
Tomek 8/10 4920 days 1%
KDS_Holiday 10/10 4920 days 1%
allyson wilson 10/10 4948 days 1%
Janice Marinkovich 8/10 4948 days 1%
Katie T 10/10 4948 days 1%
Clive 8/10 4948 days 1%
Cabby 10/10 4948 days 1%
marilyncd 10/10 4979 days 1%
antje fricke 10/10 4979 days 1%
Matt Dobson 10/10 4979 days 1%
Fred and Carin 9/10 4979 days 1%
Jacksons 10/10 4979 days 1%
Christine196 10/10 5010 days 1%
Lisa81 10/10 5101 days 1%
akie64 10/10 5132 days 1%
evvoltura 10/10 5163 days 1%
lindsaynadine 10/10 5224 days 1%
Nepolo 10/10 5224 days 1%
Lindafd1 9/10 5254 days 1%
Yakker 10/10 5254 days 1%
Ute Rogawski 9/10 5306 days 1%
margaretblakeley 9/10 5314 days 1%
hermanverman 10/10 5345 days 1%
Ela 8/10 5345 days 1%
stevenkarlclark 10/10 5376 days 1%
impivaarajones 10/10 5376 days 1%
simone13 10/10 5376 days 1%
davedouglas 10/10 5376 days 1%
le60vin 10/10 5406 days 1%
Angela_Kay 10/10 5437 days 1%
patricio77 10/10 5437 days 1%
rjbenito 10/10 5437 days 1%
agustin 10/10 5437 days 1%
steve1234 10/10 5437 days 1%
forden 10/10 5498 days 1%
pig 10/10 5529 days 1%
tobygeorge 9/10 5590 days 1%
wxcooper 10/10 5590 days 1%
English_Campers 10/10 5620 days 1%
hopkinsfamily 9/10 5620 days 1%
ericn 10/10 5651 days 1%
TJD 10/10 5651 days 1%
amyrobertson 10/10 5651 days 1%
Bain 9/10 5679 days 1%
Kim Verschaffelt 10/10 5710 days 1%
richard___ilona 10/10 5710 days 1%
bls 10/10 5710 days 1%
clydewalshe 10/10 5710 days 1%
franciewalshe 10/10 5710 days 1%
kated371 10/10 5710 days 1%
ieb 10/10 5710 days 1%
ci600 9/10 5741 days 1%
kaye 10/10 5741 days 1%
Gerdefisherman 10/10 5771 days 1%
KiwiAngler 9/10 5771 days 1%
BJP 9/10 5771 days 1%
ThePresident 10/10 5771 days 1%
Andrea Hasenoehrl 10/10 5771 days 1%
cst 10/10 5802 days 1%
lalaishu 9/10 5863 days 1%
olgazurdo 10/10 5894 days 1%
MXNUT 8/10 5985 days 1%
dino3310 9/10 5985 days 1%
Caseye 1/10 6044 days 0%
FC46 1/10 6044 days 0%
HerrKlink 1/10 6044 days 0%
Cabin_fever 4/10 6044 days 1%
dadpole 3/10 6044 days 0%
Kazmeister 9/10 6136 days 1%
david 9/10 6393 days 1%

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

-1.64% Adjustment

There may be an adjustment if this experience hasn't received any reviews within the last 109 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 138 days. Adjustments are according to the following table.

Days Adjustment
135 -1.61%
136 -1.62%
137 -1.63%
138 -1.64%
139 -1.65%
140 -1.67%
141 -1.68%

Balancing Adjustment

6.94% 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.