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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
91.69%
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 | 659 days | 100% |
| Laura | 10/10 | 2241 days | 6% |
| Mike Fricker | 10/10 | 2698 days | 4% |
| Jean Simonet | 10/10 | 3044 days | 3% |
| Katharina Koch | 9/10 | 3289 days | 3% |
| Ben | 10/10 | 3311 days | 3% |
| Lucille Laurent | 8/10 | 3328 days | 3% |
| Marie Gros | 8/10 | 3328 days | 3% |
| Teresa Baxter | 10/10 | 3336 days | 3% |
| Stuart Gange | 10/10 | 3359 days | 3% |
| Moreno | 10/10 | 3366 days | 3% |
| Richard Fox | 7/10 | 3381 days | 2% |
| Ferdinand | 6/10 | 3381 days | 2% |
| romain perroches | 10/10 | 3390 days | 3% |
| Gabriel Prerot | 9/10 | 3408 days | 2% |
| Bettina Enigl | 10/10 | 3408 days | 3% |
| Jessica Pein | 7/10 | 3411 days | 2% |
| Nicole | 7/10 | 3612 days | 2% |
| Sebastian Bauer | 7/10 | 3612 days | 2% |
| Nathalie Botz | 7/10 | 3612 days | 2% |
| Leopold Kern | 9/10 | 3615 days | 2% |
| Claire Baron | 8/10 | 3623 days | 2% |
| Sarah Grant | 7/10 | 3624 days | 2% |
| Unalte | 8/10 | 3625 days | 2% |
| Ellie Perkin | 7/10 | 3627 days | 2% |
| Jelmer Postma | 7/10 | 3627 days | 2% |
| Jenny Young | 10/10 | 3631 days | 2% |
| Maayke Reidsma | 9/10 | 3635 days | 2% |
| Brad Dobsky | 8/10 | 3636 days | 2% |
| Radim Halasz | 10/10 | 3637 days | 2% |
| Katerina Vobecka | 10/10 | 3637 days | 2% |
| Judith | 10/10 | 3643 days | 2% |
| Prisuille | 8/10 | 3643 days | 2% |
| Andre | 10/10 | 3645 days | 2% |
| Marco | 7/10 | 3650 days | 2% |
| Ben and Pauline | 10/10 | 3654 days | 2% |
| Andrea Tabaka | 9/10 | 3659 days | 2% |
| Matas Tirilis | 9/10 | 3659 days | 2% |
| Charlie Noon | 10/10 | 3669 days | 2% |
| Rebecca Oft | 8/10 | 3682 days | 2% |
| Philipp | 7/10 | 3682 days | 2% |
| Joanna and Shaun | 7/10 | 3682 days | 2% |
| Monica Mier | 10/10 | 3684 days | 2% |
| Elisabeth Grabner | 8/10 | 3689 days | 2% |
| Audrey Cavalerie | 8/10 | 3696 days | 2% |
| Amadeus van Schie | 9/10 | 3715 days | 2% |
| Roman and Liz | 10/10 | 3720 days | 2% |
| Maxi Woedel | 7/10 | 3735 days | 2% |
| James Webster | 10/10 | 3968 days | 1% |
| Miriam Burchartz | 9/10 | 3997 days | 1% |
| Lara Jakob | 10/10 | 3998 days | 1% |
| Darker | 10/10 | 4023 days | 1% |
| Manuela Opprecht | 9/10 | 4047 days | 1% |
| Katie Stillman | 9/10 | 4081 days | 1% |
| Heike Heller | 10/10 | 4351 days | 0% |
| Andreas Mouteiro | 10/10 | 4351 days | 0% |
| Benoit Irissou | 9/10 | 4373 days | 0% |
| Emilie Chanbon | 9/10 | 4404 days | 1% |
| Bella Danaher | 9/10 | 4410 days | 1% |
| Daniel Danamer | 9/10 | 4410 days | 1% |
| Renee van der Syde | 9/10 | 4416 days | 1% |
| Martha Horst | 8/10 | 4416 days | 1% |
| Sarah Strong | 10/10 | 4425 days | 1% |
| balesdent | 10/10 | 4429 days | 1% |
| Lara Mroseck | 8/10 | 4430 days | 1% |
| Robert Geissler | 10/10 | 4430 days | 1% |
| Mark Wiggington | 9/10 | 4701 days | 1% |
| Katya Verikaitis | 10/10 | 4731 days | 1% |
| Claire | 10/10 | 4738 days | 1% |
| Karine Scheers | 10/10 | 4739 days | 1% |
| Karina Gratz | 8/10 | 4742 days | 1% |
| Benjamin Geisser | 9/10 | 4743 days | 1% |
| Rachel Geisser | 9/10 | 4743 days | 1% |
| Lagunegrand | 8/10 | 4754 days | 1% |
| Loesje | 9/10 | 4797 days | 1% |
| David and Sally Wallis | 9/10 | 4819 days | 1% |
| Chew (Peter) | 8/10 | 4819 days | 1% |
| Joanna | 7/10 | 4834 days | 1% |
| Reijans | 9/10 | 4834 days | 1% |
| Jim and JoAnn Harllee | 10/10 | 4834 days | 1% |
| Eric and Jen Popma | 9/10 | 4838 days | 1% |
| C Schaap | 10/10 | 4839 days | 1% |
| Steve and Therese Dunne | 7/10 | 4840 days | 1% |
| Green UK | 9/10 | 5084 days | 1% |
| Andreas Schacke | 9/10 | 5088 days | 1% |
| Birds Tubbs | 10/10 | 5088 days | 1% |
| Nathan Sait | 10/10 | 5095 days | 1% |
| Toby Clark | 10/10 | 5095 days | 1% |
| Heath | 10/10 | 5099 days | 1% |
| Wil de Kubber | 9/10 | 5108 days | 1% |
| Vlutters | 8/10 | 5108 days | 1% |
| Inge & Erik | 9/10 | 5113 days | 1% |
| Martin & Dee Bellarby | 10/10 | 5113 days | 1% |
| Ryan Pynappels | 10/10 | 5114 days | 1% |
| Nico Schoots | 7/10 | 5114 days | 1% |
| Shirley Marshall | 10/10 | 5115 days | 1% |
| Mary Mitchell | 9/10 | 5117 days | 1% |
| Paul Fairbrass | 10/10 | 5125 days | 1% |
| David Blundell | 9/10 | 5127 days | 1% |
| Thomas Behy | 9/10 | 5130 days | 1% |
| Anika | 7/10 | 5131 days | 1% |
| Cick Pouw | 9/10 | 5131 days | 1% |
| Chris & Jen Spencer | 10/10 | 5143 days | 1% |
| kaikouranz | 10/10 | 5163 days | 1% |
| Marc & Pauline | 9/10 | 5200 days | 1% |
| Anna Bret | 9/10 | 5203 days | 1% |
| Berry | 10/10 | 5205 days | 1% |
| David & Audrey | 9/10 | 5209 days | 1% |
| Peter Spooner | 9/10 | 5211 days | 1% |
| Eveline Mestrom | 8/10 | 5214 days | 1% |
| Craig Hathaway | 8/10 | 5437 days | 1% |
| Sarah James | 10/10 | 5437 days | 1% |
| Nick Taylor | 10/10 | 5437 days | 1% |
| Christine | 10/10 | 5450 days | 1% |
| Ed Ronan | 9/10 | 5454 days | 1% |
| Stefanie | 10/10 | 5454 days | 1% |
| Charlie | 9/10 | 5455 days | 1% |
| Jason & Beth Berlin | 10/10 | 5455 days | 1% |
| Richard Gallichan | 7/10 | 5456 days | 1% |
| Veronica Warren | 8/10 | 5459 days | 1% |
| Maggie Leyland | 8/10 | 5459 days | 1% |
| henriket | 10/10 | 5463 days | 1% |
| Stephen Shearer | 10/10 | 5466 days | 1% |
| LandJ | 8/10 | 5469 days | 1% |
| Erin Dumbauld | 8/10 | 5470 days | 1% |
| Wendy Good | 8/10 | 5471 days | 1% |
| Andreas Fritesche | 10/10 | 5472 days | 1% |
| David Emerick | 9/10 | 5472 days | 1% |
| Petra Lehmann | 10/10 | 5474 days | 1% |
| Richard Brijs | 9/10 | 5480 days | 1% |
| Danny and Loreen Way | 8/10 | 5485 days | 1% |
| Roy Seymour | 8/10 | 5488 days | 1% |
| D Hoekstra | 9/10 | 5492 days | 1% |
| Ellen Thompson | 10/10 | 5492 days | 1% |
| Chris Chasemore | 7/10 | 5493 days | 1% |
| Marie | 9/10 | 5803 days | 1% |
| June | 9/10 | 5803 days | 1% |
| Zoe Norcross | 9/10 | 5820 days | 1% |
| Matthias & Ceristiane | 8/10 | 5821 days | 1% |
| Antoine Migault | 7/10 | 5824 days | 1% |
| Antoine Del | 8/10 | 5824 days | 1% |
| R Bakker | 7/10 | 5825 days | 1% |
| Trude | 10/10 | 5836 days | 1% |
| Brian_Val | 10/10 | 5837 days | 1% |
| Brian Morris | 10/10 | 5843 days | 1% |
| Thijs Schoemaker | 8/10 | 5848 days | 1% |
| Ulric | 8/10 | 5856 days | 1% |
| Johanna X | 9/10 | 5857 days | 1% |
| Petra Berrens | 7/10 | 5860 days | 1% |
| Markus | 7/10 | 5878 days | 1% |
| biene | 9/10 | 5908 days | 1% |
| martinab | 10/10 | 5908 days | 1% |
| mdarras | 9/10 | 5928 days | 1% |
| Bert Wierzy | 9/10 | 5931 days | 1% |
| Ruth Colmer | 10/10 | 5934 days | 1% |
| Katrin Wennin | 10/10 | 5935 days | 1% |
| Alan Riley | 9/10 | 5936 days | 1% |
| Gensen | 7/10 | 5950 days | 1% |
| SiljaH | 6/10 | 6158 days | 1% |
| RussC | 8/10 | 6160 days | 1% |
| Martina Bumiller | 9/10 | 6173 days | 1% |
| Andrew Smith | 7/10 | 6174 days | 1% |
| Christian Moll | 7/10 | 6184 days | 1% |
| Johannes & Jopke Fokkema | 8/10 | 6188 days | 1% |
| Nick | 6/10 | 6197 days | 1% |
| Amanda Williams | 9/10 | 6209 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.