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 Cameron Flat Campsite.

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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Cameron Flat Campsite

Valid Reviews

57 Valid Reviews

The Cameron Flat Campsite experience has a total of 60 reviews. There are 57 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 57 valid reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 10
18%
9/10 12
21%
8/10 17
30%
7/10 7
12%
6/10 5
9%
5/10 2
4%
4/10 0
0%
3/10 1
2%
2/10 2
4%
1/10 1
2%

77.37% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Cameron Flat Campsite valid reviews is 77.37% and is based on 57 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

8 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 57 valid reviews, the experience has 8 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.

Below is the distribution of ratings for the 8 face-to-face reviews:

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

62.50% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Cameron Flat Campsite face-to-face reviews is 62.50% and is based on 8 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.

Weighted Average

77.80%

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
jo 8/10 192 days 99%
In-cydah-traders 10/10 222 days 100%
Laura 9/10 222 days 99%
Laura 2/10 281 days 45%
Thom S 6/10 312 days 84%
Samuel Bullock 7/10 343 days 89%
Lea 9/10 404 days 92%
Dylan 3/10 557 days 46%
Rebecca 8/10 587 days 81%
Joel Fryett 8/10 678 days 74%
Niff 9/10 953 days 49%
Sarah Elliott 10/10 1043 days 41%
ElizabethE 8/10 1043 days 40%
Bradley 8/10 1043 days 40%
Lucy 7/10 1196 days 26%
The Gillies 9/10 1742 days 5%
Ying 9/10 1865 days 5%
Just a guy 8/10 2079 days 4%
Emma 7/10 2108 days 4%
GiuliaG 7/10 2170 days 4%
Julianne McKie 9/10 2231 days 4%
Michael S 5/10 2473 days 3%
Dave Reynolds 6/10 2504 days 3%
Matt Tebbit 10/10 2535 days 3%
vally 8/10 2535 days 3%
Safire B 6/10 2535 days 3%
Indy 8/10 2565 days 3%
Melinda Pyke 8/10 2626 days 3%
Louis 8/10 2688 days 3%
Sezz bella 9/10 2749 days 3%
Raylene Harvey 10/10 2749 days 3%
Matthew Hall 10/10 2864 days 3%
Katrina 9/10 2900 days 3%
Debbie Lesurf 9/10 2900 days 3%
Cat Pinder 9/10 2928 days 3%
Joe Trigg 7/10 2941 days 2%
Esmee Winnubst 9/10 3118 days 2%
Marc Lambert 8/10 3150 days 2%
Katie Marx 8/10 3175 days 2%
Angie Abbink 9/10 3383 days 2%
Rita Ashby 8/10 3448 days 2%
Rebecca Symons 10/10 3601 days 1%
Udo Wagner 2/10 3617 days 0%
Erica b 8/10 3875 days 1%
Liliana Zahut 10/10 3996 days 0%
Sander and Eliza Hembrarskamp 10/10 4149 days 0%
Tom Guthknecht 10/10 4234 days 0%
Karen Perry 10/10 4452 days 1%
Deon Bossenger 8/10 4605 days 1%
Marcel 7/10 4629 days 0%
Maria 6/10 4629 days 0%
Rob Cadmus 8/10 4639 days 0%
Kate Glover 6/10 4639 days 0%
Chew (Peter) 7/10 4717 days 0%
Ofir Avimeir 1/10 5345 days 0%
Rissa W 8/10 5395 days 1%
linus 5/10 5948 days 0%

Adjustments

No Adjustment

Several adjustments to the weighted average may be added to improve relevancy and credibility. Cameron Flat Campsite does not meet the criteria for any of these adjustments to apply.

Balancing Adjustment

3.65% 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

81%

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.