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 Henry Creek 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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Henry Creek Campsite

Valid Reviews

105 Valid Reviews

The Henry Creek Campsite experience has a total of 106 reviews. There are 105 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 105 valid reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 26
25%
9/10 15
14%
8/10 25
24%
7/10 18
17%
6/10 6
6%
5/10 7
7%
4/10 2
2%
3/10 2
2%
2/10 4
4%
1/10 0
0%

77.52% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Henry Creek Campsite valid reviews is 77.52% and is based on 105 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

35 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 105 valid reviews, the experience has 35 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.

Below is the distribution of ratings for the 35 face-to-face reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 10
29%
9/10 6
17%
8/10 7
20%
7/10 4
11%
6/10 2
6%
5/10 3
9%
4/10 1
3%
3/10 0
0%
2/10 2
6%
1/10 0
0%

78.00% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Henry Creek Campsite face-to-face reviews is 78.00% and is based on 35 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.

Weighted Average

75.06%

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
prospy 7/10 4 days 94%
TS 9/10 34 days 100%
Rory M 6/10 65 days 87%
Eline 3/10 248 days 53%
Jacinta 7/10 248 days 91%
Marine 10/10 279 days 97%
Paul 8/10 279 days 95%
Fredrik 8/10 338 days 93%
Max 5/10 399 days 70%
Christina 8/10 399 days 90%
Lauryn 5/10 399 days 70%
Rebecca 8/10 613 days 78%
Steve 8/10 765 days 66%
Cholly 10/10 796 days 65%
Susan 8/10 888 days 54%
Amy Fortin-Barrette 8/10 949 days 48%
Vicky 2/10 1010 days 20%
Srinivas Prasad Bheemanadam 10/10 1038 days 41%
Brianna 4/10 1130 days 21%
Jenny Pentelow 5/10 1434 days 11%
Helen 10/10 1679 days 6%
The Gillies 9/10 1740 days 5%
Michelle 10/10 1830 days 5%
Niven 9/10 2134 days 4%
Thad 7/10 2226 days 4%
Will M 10/10 2257 days 4%
Julianne McKie 8/10 2257 days 4%
Felix 6/10 2440 days 3%
lucy Ashenden 8/10 2440 days 4%
Julie 9/10 2440 days 4%
Glen Marshall UK 8/10 2471 days 4%
Armando Rodriguez Bringas 10/10 2471 days 4%
Megan Belanger 8/10 2499 days 4%
Francois & Caroline 7/10 2530 days 3%
JT 3/10 2530 days 2%
Rebecca Rodeghiero 7/10 2561 days 3%
Page Family 9/10 2591 days 3%
Jill Grimwood 9/10 2856 days 3%
Annina Jarvinen 8/10 2914 days 3%
Carol Brislane 8/10 3201 days 2%
Craig Eagleton 9/10 3234 days 2%
Victoria Strong 10/10 3258 days 2%
Chelsea Thomas-Hamblin 2/10 3283 days 1%
Joanne Woo 10/10 3321 days 2%
Fi Glasgow 10/10 3355 days 2%
Connie Hopper 7/10 3522 days 2%
Jenny Adams 9/10 3549 days 2%
Lena Wesselink 7/10 3580 days 1%
Marina 8/10 3592 days 1%
Werner S 6/10 3614 days 1%
Mark Sercombe 7/10 3616 days 1%
Suzanne Vermeulen 7/10 3687 days 1%
Emma Rochester 10/10 3700 days 1%
Jessie Karsif 10/10 3830 days 1%
sydneyaharris 10/10 3932 days 1%
Sebastiaan Kemperman 6/10 3946 days 1%
Benjamin Scherer 10/10 3954 days 1%
Jess Rose 9/10 3960 days 1%
Jan Rüegg 7/10 3991 days 1%
Mike R 8/10 4004 days 1%
Cora and Franzi 10/10 4013 days 1%
Alexandre Moleiro 7/10 4022 days 1%
bzh974 7/10 4022 days 1%
Sander and Eliza Hembrarskamp 8/10 4175 days 0%
Justin globalgauthiers.blogspot.com 8/10 4266 days 0%
Karolina Gren 2/10 4266 days 0%
Corinne 9/10 4267 days 0%
Julian Kuemme 6/10 4272 days 0%
Mandy Reich 6/10 4273 days 0%
Max Backelandt 7/10 4276 days 0%
Marie Toulemonde 9/10 4276 days 0%
Mark 8/10 4279 days 0%
Annika Marz 8/10 4289 days 0%
Julian Zeissler 5/10 4289 days 0%
Sheila Galpin 7/10 4295 days 0%
Thomas Chacko 8/10 4297 days 0%
Antoine 8/10 4306 days 0%
Louison Laissus 8/10 4306 days 0%
Arthur Langlume 9/10 4320 days 0%
Becky Davis 5/10 4324 days 0%
Johanna Bak 2/10 4344 days 0%
Magdalene Zech 7/10 4346 days 0%
Marco Newald 10/10 4346 days 0%
Pioter Jurkowski 8/10 4356 days 0%
Rhi 5/10 4448 days 1%
Florian 9/10 4631 days 1%
Katharina 8/10 4649 days 1%
Luise Fuchs 5/10 4652 days 1%
Kadyan 7/10 4662 days 1%
patrick+ katerina 7/10 4662 days 1%
Katharina Littlemann 8/10 4674 days 1%
Camille 10/10 4757 days 1%
Maxine Gilman 10/10 5022 days 1%
Jaap & Susanne 4/10 5036 days 1%
Stefes Wencke 10/10 5040 days 1%
Mirando4ka 10/10 5056 days 1%
Jory Singer 10/10 5133 days 1%
Brian Jones 10/10 5372 days 1%
Julie and Russ Charles 7/10 5375 days 1%
Jacob 10/10 5380 days 1%
Galamez 10/10 5400 days 1%
Doris Neuber 9/10 5420 days 1%
Puravida 10/10 5544 days 1%
Hans and Astrid 10/10 5735 days 1%
jessica 9/10 6013 days 1%

Adjustments

No Adjustment

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

Balancing Adjustment

4.63% 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

80%

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.