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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 Kaikoura Peninsula Walkway.
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.
Kaikoura Peninsula Walkway
Valid Reviews
166 Valid Reviews
The Kaikoura Peninsula Walkway experience has a total of 166 valid reviews. There are no 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 166 valid reviews:
| Rating | Count | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/10 | 59 |
|
36% |
| 9/10 | 49 |
|
30% |
| 8/10 | 30 |
|
18% |
| 7/10 | 25 |
|
15% |
| 6/10 | 3 |
|
2% |
| 5/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 4/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 3/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 2/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 1/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
88.19% Average
The raw data average (mean) for all the Kaikoura Peninsula Walkway valid reviews is 88.19% and is based on 166 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
152 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 166 valid reviews, the experience has 152 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.
Below is the distribution of ratings for the 152 face-to-face reviews:
| Rating | Count | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/10 | 51 |
|
34% |
| 9/10 | 46 |
|
30% |
| 8/10 | 28 |
|
18% |
| 7/10 | 25 |
|
16% |
| 6/10 | 2 |
|
1% |
| 5/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 4/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 3/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 2/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 1/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
87.83% Average
The raw data average (mean) for all the Kaikoura Peninsula Walkway face-to-face reviews is 87.83% and is based on 152 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.
Weighted Average
91.66%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Fricker | 10/10 | 681 days | 100% |
| Laura | 10/10 | 2263 days | 6% |
| Mike Fricker | 10/10 | 2720 days | 4% |
| Jean Simonet | 10/10 | 3066 days | 3% |
| Katharina Koch | 9/10 | 3311 days | 3% |
| Ben | 10/10 | 3333 days | 3% |
| Lucille Laurent | 8/10 | 3350 days | 3% |
| Marie Gros | 8/10 | 3350 days | 3% |
| Teresa Baxter | 10/10 | 3357 days | 3% |
| Stuart Gange | 10/10 | 3381 days | 3% |
| Moreno | 10/10 | 3388 days | 3% |
| Richard Fox | 7/10 | 3403 days | 2% |
| Ferdinand | 6/10 | 3403 days | 2% |
| romain perroches | 10/10 | 3412 days | 3% |
| Gabriel Prerot | 9/10 | 3430 days | 2% |
| Bettina Enigl | 10/10 | 3430 days | 3% |
| Jessica Pein | 7/10 | 3433 days | 2% |
| Nicole | 7/10 | 3634 days | 2% |
| Sebastian Bauer | 7/10 | 3634 days | 2% |
| Nathalie Botz | 7/10 | 3634 days | 2% |
| Leopold Kern | 9/10 | 3637 days | 2% |
| Claire Baron | 8/10 | 3645 days | 2% |
| Sarah Grant | 7/10 | 3646 days | 2% |
| Unalte | 8/10 | 3647 days | 2% |
| Ellie Perkin | 7/10 | 3649 days | 2% |
| Jelmer Postma | 7/10 | 3649 days | 2% |
| Jenny Young | 10/10 | 3653 days | 2% |
| Maayke Reidsma | 9/10 | 3657 days | 2% |
| Brad Dobsky | 8/10 | 3658 days | 2% |
| Radim Halasz | 10/10 | 3659 days | 2% |
| Katerina Vobecka | 10/10 | 3659 days | 2% |
| Judith | 10/10 | 3665 days | 2% |
| Prisuille | 8/10 | 3665 days | 2% |
| Andre | 10/10 | 3667 days | 2% |
| Marco | 7/10 | 3672 days | 2% |
| Ben and Pauline | 10/10 | 3676 days | 2% |
| Andrea Tabaka | 9/10 | 3681 days | 2% |
| Matas Tirilis | 9/10 | 3681 days | 2% |
| Charlie Noon | 10/10 | 3691 days | 2% |
| Rebecca Oft | 8/10 | 3704 days | 2% |
| Philipp | 7/10 | 3704 days | 2% |
| Joanna and Shaun | 7/10 | 3704 days | 2% |
| Monica Mier | 10/10 | 3706 days | 2% |
| Elisabeth Grabner | 8/10 | 3711 days | 2% |
| Audrey Cavalerie | 8/10 | 3718 days | 2% |
| Amadeus van Schie | 9/10 | 3737 days | 2% |
| Roman and Liz | 10/10 | 3742 days | 2% |
| Maxi Woedel | 7/10 | 3757 days | 2% |
| James Webster | 10/10 | 3990 days | 1% |
| Miriam Burchartz | 9/10 | 4019 days | 1% |
| Lara Jakob | 10/10 | 4020 days | 1% |
| Darker | 10/10 | 4045 days | 1% |
| Manuela Opprecht | 9/10 | 4069 days | 1% |
| Katie Stillman | 9/10 | 4103 days | 1% |
| Heike Heller | 10/10 | 4373 days | 0% |
| Andreas Mouteiro | 10/10 | 4373 days | 0% |
| Benoit Irissou | 9/10 | 4395 days | 1% |
| Emilie Chanbon | 9/10 | 4426 days | 1% |
| Bella Danaher | 9/10 | 4432 days | 1% |
| Daniel Danamer | 9/10 | 4432 days | 1% |
| Renee van der Syde | 9/10 | 4438 days | 1% |
| Martha Horst | 8/10 | 4438 days | 1% |
| Sarah Strong | 10/10 | 4447 days | 1% |
| balesdent | 10/10 | 4451 days | 1% |
| Lara Mroseck | 8/10 | 4452 days | 1% |
| Robert Geissler | 10/10 | 4452 days | 1% |
| Mark Wiggington | 9/10 | 4723 days | 1% |
| Katya Verikaitis | 10/10 | 4753 days | 1% |
| Claire | 10/10 | 4760 days | 1% |
| Karine Scheers | 10/10 | 4761 days | 1% |
| Karina Gratz | 8/10 | 4764 days | 1% |
| Benjamin Geisser | 9/10 | 4765 days | 1% |
| Rachel Geisser | 9/10 | 4765 days | 1% |
| Lagunegrand | 8/10 | 4776 days | 1% |
| Loesje | 9/10 | 4819 days | 1% |
| David and Sally Wallis | 9/10 | 4841 days | 1% |
| Chew (Peter) | 8/10 | 4841 days | 1% |
| Joanna | 7/10 | 4856 days | 1% |
| Reijans | 9/10 | 4856 days | 1% |
| Jim and JoAnn Harllee | 10/10 | 4856 days | 1% |
| Eric and Jen Popma | 9/10 | 4860 days | 1% |
| C Schaap | 10/10 | 4861 days | 1% |
| Steve and Therese Dunne | 7/10 | 4862 days | 1% |
| Green UK | 9/10 | 5106 days | 1% |
| Andreas Schacke | 9/10 | 5110 days | 1% |
| Birds Tubbs | 10/10 | 5110 days | 1% |
| Nathan Sait | 10/10 | 5117 days | 1% |
| Toby Clark | 10/10 | 5117 days | 1% |
| Heath | 10/10 | 5121 days | 1% |
| Wil de Kubber | 9/10 | 5130 days | 1% |
| Vlutters | 8/10 | 5130 days | 1% |
| Inge & Erik | 9/10 | 5135 days | 1% |
| Martin & Dee Bellarby | 10/10 | 5135 days | 1% |
| Ryan Pynappels | 10/10 | 5136 days | 1% |
| Nico Schoots | 7/10 | 5136 days | 1% |
| Shirley Marshall | 10/10 | 5137 days | 1% |
| Mary Mitchell | 9/10 | 5139 days | 1% |
| Paul Fairbrass | 10/10 | 5147 days | 1% |
| David Blundell | 9/10 | 5149 days | 1% |
| Thomas Behy | 9/10 | 5152 days | 1% |
| Anika | 7/10 | 5153 days | 1% |
| Cick Pouw | 9/10 | 5153 days | 1% |
| Chris & Jen Spencer | 10/10 | 5165 days | 1% |
| kaikouranz | 10/10 | 5185 days | 1% |
| Marc & Pauline | 9/10 | 5222 days | 1% |
| Anna Bret | 9/10 | 5225 days | 1% |
| Berry | 10/10 | 5227 days | 1% |
| David & Audrey | 9/10 | 5231 days | 1% |
| Peter Spooner | 9/10 | 5233 days | 1% |
| Eveline Mestrom | 8/10 | 5236 days | 1% |
| Craig Hathaway | 8/10 | 5459 days | 1% |
| Sarah James | 10/10 | 5459 days | 1% |
| Nick Taylor | 10/10 | 5459 days | 1% |
| Christine | 10/10 | 5472 days | 1% |
| Ed Ronan | 9/10 | 5476 days | 1% |
| Stefanie | 10/10 | 5476 days | 1% |
| Charlie | 9/10 | 5477 days | 1% |
| Jason & Beth Berlin | 10/10 | 5477 days | 1% |
| Richard Gallichan | 7/10 | 5478 days | 1% |
| Veronica Warren | 8/10 | 5481 days | 1% |
| Maggie Leyland | 8/10 | 5481 days | 1% |
| henriket | 10/10 | 5485 days | 1% |
| Stephen Shearer | 10/10 | 5488 days | 1% |
| LandJ | 8/10 | 5491 days | 1% |
| Erin Dumbauld | 8/10 | 5492 days | 1% |
| Wendy Good | 8/10 | 5493 days | 1% |
| Andreas Fritesche | 10/10 | 5494 days | 1% |
| David Emerick | 9/10 | 5494 days | 1% |
| Petra Lehmann | 10/10 | 5496 days | 1% |
| Richard Brijs | 9/10 | 5502 days | 1% |
| Danny and Loreen Way | 8/10 | 5507 days | 1% |
| Roy Seymour | 8/10 | 5510 days | 1% |
| D Hoekstra | 9/10 | 5514 days | 1% |
| Ellen Thompson | 10/10 | 5514 days | 1% |
| Chris Chasemore | 7/10 | 5515 days | 1% |
| Marie | 9/10 | 5825 days | 1% |
| June | 9/10 | 5825 days | 1% |
| Zoe Norcross | 9/10 | 5842 days | 1% |
| Matthias & Ceristiane | 8/10 | 5843 days | 1% |
| Antoine Migault | 7/10 | 5846 days | 1% |
| Antoine Del | 8/10 | 5846 days | 1% |
| R Bakker | 7/10 | 5847 days | 1% |
| Trude | 10/10 | 5858 days | 1% |
| Brian_Val | 10/10 | 5859 days | 1% |
| Brian Morris | 10/10 | 5865 days | 1% |
| Thijs Schoemaker | 8/10 | 5870 days | 1% |
| Ulric | 8/10 | 5878 days | 1% |
| Johanna X | 9/10 | 5879 days | 1% |
| Petra Berrens | 7/10 | 5882 days | 1% |
| Markus | 7/10 | 5900 days | 1% |
| biene | 9/10 | 5930 days | 1% |
| martinab | 10/10 | 5930 days | 1% |
| mdarras | 9/10 | 5950 days | 1% |
| Bert Wierzy | 9/10 | 5953 days | 1% |
| Ruth Colmer | 10/10 | 5956 days | 1% |
| Katrin Wennin | 10/10 | 5957 days | 1% |
| Alan Riley | 9/10 | 5958 days | 1% |
| Gensen | 7/10 | 5972 days | 1% |
| SiljaH | 6/10 | 6180 days | 1% |
| RussC | 8/10 | 6182 days | 1% |
| Martina Bumiller | 9/10 | 6195 days | 1% |
| Andrew Smith | 7/10 | 6196 days | 1% |
| Christian Moll | 7/10 | 6206 days | 1% |
| Johannes & Jopke Fokkema | 8/10 | 6210 days | 1% |
| Nick | 6/10 | 6219 days | 1% |
| Amanda Williams | 9/10 | 6231 days | 1% |
Adjustments
No Adjustment
Several adjustments to the weighted average may be added to improve relevancy and credibility. Kaikoura Peninsula Walkway does not meet the criteria for any of these adjustments to apply.
Balancing Adjustment
0.79% 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
92%
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.