Ranking Score Explained
Hi there, 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 Rob Roy Track.
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.
Rob Roy Track
Valid Reviews
130 Valid Reviews
The Rob Roy Track experience has a total of 131 reviews. There are 130 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 130 valid reviews:
| Rating | Count | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/10 | 61 |
|
47% |
| 9/10 | 44 |
|
34% |
| 8/10 | 16 |
|
12% |
| 7/10 | 4 |
|
3% |
| 6/10 | 3 |
|
2% |
| 5/10 | 2 |
|
2% |
| 4/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 3/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 2/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 1/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
91.54% Average
The raw data average (mean) for all the Rob Roy Track valid reviews is 91.54% and is based on 130 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
119 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 130 valid reviews, the experience has 119 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.
Below is the distribution of ratings for the 119 face-to-face reviews:
| Rating | Count | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/10 | 55 |
|
46% |
| 9/10 | 39 |
|
33% |
| 8/10 | 16 |
|
13% |
| 7/10 | 4 |
|
3% |
| 6/10 | 3 |
|
3% |
| 5/10 | 2 |
|
2% |
| 4/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 3/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 2/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
| 1/10 | 0 |
|
0% |
91.18% Average
The raw data average (mean) for all the Rob Roy Track face-to-face reviews is 91.18% and is based on 119 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.
Weighted Average
93.05%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sally Caboche | 10/10 | 1633 days | 100% |
| Wolf | 10/10 | 1684 days | 97% |
| Sylvie Meganck | 10/10 | 1684 days | 97% |
| Ylva Teleman | 10/10 | 1690 days | 97% |
| Sylvie Meganck | 10/10 | 1694 days | 97% |
| Martin Marek | 10/10 | 1702 days | 97% |
| Felicity Hughes | 9/10 | 1735 days | 95% |
| Alex Hah | 10/10 | 1736 days | 95% |
| James Macguire | 10/10 | 1736 days | 95% |
| Nathalie | 10/10 | 1778 days | 93% |
| Simon | 10/10 | 1778 days | 93% |
| Janina | 9/10 | 1796 days | 92% |
| Denis Schall | 10/10 | 1804 days | 91% |
| Charlotte Molesworth | 9/10 | 1810 days | 91% |
| Marc | 10/10 | 1811 days | 91% |
| Kirsty Smith | 10/10 | 1816 days | 91% |
| MARK CURPHEY | 10/10 | 1825 days | 90% |
| Diego Casanova | 10/10 | 1825 days | 90% |
| Cat Johnston | 10/10 | 1825 days | 90% |
| James Jackson | 10/10 | 1826 days | 90% |
| Maura O'Connell | 10/10 | 1830 days | 90% |
| Steve Smith | 8/10 | 2032 days | 76% |
| Huon | 8/10 | 2033 days | 76% |
| Cecile | 9/10 | 2033 days | 80% |
| Daniel Idiart | 10/10 | 2044 days | 79% |
| Sarah Dial | 7/10 | 2045 days | 72% |
| Milan Maiwald | 9/10 | 2046 days | 79% |
| Gessica | 8/10 | 2048 days | 75% |
| Szu-Yi Hsu | 7/10 | 2050 days | 72% |
| Chao Lai | 9/10 | 2050 days | 79% |
| Anika D | 9/10 | 2050 days | 79% |
| Dominique | 6/10 | 2051 days | 65% |
| Jiri Sojka | 10/10 | 2055 days | 79% |
| Jana Formankoua | 9/10 | 2055 days | 79% |
| Clotilde Graziani | 10/10 | 2057 days | 79% |
| Johannes Eisel | 9/10 | 2057 days | 79% |
| Sydney Lupton | 5/10 | 2062 days | 63% |
| Joaquin Gruffat | 9/10 | 2066 days | 78% |
| Lili Souris | 10/10 | 2069 days | 78% |
| Elodie Bardolle | 8/10 | 2069 days | 74% |
| Laurent Petit | 10/10 | 2084 days | 77% |
| Sara and Antoine | 9/10 | 2114 days | 76% |
| Hannah Stiles | 10/10 | 2114 days | 76% |
| Monika Dippel | 10/10 | 2134 days | 75% |
| Nicole and Elliott | 10/10 | 2150 days | 74% |
| Elisabet Millet | 10/10 | 2155 days | 74% |
| Graham Lighner | 10/10 | 2161 days | 74% |
| Danica Vrsaljko | 10/10 | 2412 days | 61% |
| Markus Johannes | 9/10 | 2412 days | 61% |
| Kristina Farkas | 10/10 | 2441 days | 60% |
| Finn and Melanie Lorbeer | 10/10 | 2447 days | 59% |
| Barbara | 9/10 | 2499 days | 57% |
| Samuel Tohko | 10/10 | 2499 days | 57% |
| Shelly Weissbrem | 10/10 | 2516 days | 56% |
| Julie | 9/10 | 2545 days | 54% |
| Marilyn Nadeau | 9/10 | 2730 days | 45% |
| Helen Olsson | 10/10 | 2767 days | 43% |
| Max Backelandt | 9/10 | 2770 days | 43% |
| Marie Toulemonde | 10/10 | 2770 days | 43% |
| Chris Handley | 9/10 | 2787 days | 42% |
| Charlotte Casey | 8/10 | 2787 days | 40% |
| Igor | 9/10 | 2791 days | 42% |
| Olivier Carval | 9/10 | 2793 days | 42% |
| Francisco Pablo Miguel | 8/10 | 2816 days | 39% |
| Gal Bero | 10/10 | 2853 days | 39% |
| Daniel McAlpine | 10/10 | 2855 days | 39% |
| Kellie | 10/10 | 2855 days | 39% |
| Jitka Krejcova | 10/10 | 3142 days | 25% |
| Michal Sturma | 10/10 | 3142 days | 25% |
| Raelene Vine | 9/10 | 3156 days | 24% |
| Petra Blumberg | 9/10 | 3162 days | 24% |
| Guillot | 9/10 | 3163 days | 23% |
| Fraser Goldsmith | 10/10 | 3180 days | 23% |
| Jacquemard | 8/10 | 3251 days | 18% |
| Karsten Meyer | 9/10 | 3261 days | 19% |
| Loesje | 9/10 | 3276 days | 18% |
| Rien | 8/10 | 3513 days | 6% |
| Carole Carter | 10/10 | 3513 days | 6% |
| Daniel Patricia | 8/10 | 3524 days | 5% |
| Sam | 10/10 | 3525 days | 5% |
| Les Barnes | 9/10 | 3530 days | 5% |
| Karin Laurev | 10/10 | 3530 days | 5% |
| Mike & Jennie | 9/10 | 3532 days | 5% |
| Lyn Deavin | 6/10 | 3533 days | 4% |
| Diane Moss | 7/10 | 3535 days | 4% |
| Kurt & Noemi Buhler | 9/10 | 3545 days | 4% |
| Frank & Julia | 9/10 | 3549 days | 4% |
| budge69 | 10/10 | 3550 days | 4% |
| Mike1952 | 9/10 | 3550 days | 4% |
| Urban Reifler | 9/10 | 3561 days | 4% |
| Kaelin | 10/10 | 3626 days | 0% |
| Scott & Madeleine Bancroft | 10/10 | 3632 days | 0% |
| Allison Meyoz | 8/10 | 3832 days | 23% |
| Fontvieille | 5/10 | 3839 days | 20% |
| Marc Edwards | 9/10 | 3845 days | 25% |
| Ken Talan | 10/10 | 3852 days | 25% |
| Laurent Pouvreau | 10/10 | 3859 days | 25% |
| Matthias Joos | 9/10 | 3876 days | 25% |
| Ann-Kathrin Auditor | 10/10 | 3881 days | 25% |
| Mannebach & Siejert | 8/10 | 3884 days | 23% |
| Laurent Michon | 8/10 | 3885 days | 23% |
| Brendan Dunn | 9/10 | 3887 days | 25% |
| Carmel | 8/10 | 3891 days | 23% |
| Sandra | 9/10 | 3892 days | 25% |
| Nataly Loewidt | 10/10 | 3907 days | 25% |
| Tom Hill | 8/10 | 3910 days | 23% |
| Darrell & Michelle Lamb | 9/10 | 4169 days | 25% |
| Ann Michle | 10/10 | 4172 days | 25% |
| Inbar Yizhar Barnea | 9/10 | 4240 days | 25% |
| David Morton | 9/10 | 4254 days | 25% |
| Paula Martinez | 10/10 | 4255 days | 25% |
| Chris el capitan | 10/10 | 4257 days | 25% |
| Huber | 10/10 | 4274 days | 25% |
| Dick Rosman | 9/10 | 4276 days | 25% |
| Rob | 9/10 | 4278 days | 25% |
| Jeremy & Sarah Rind | 6/10 | 4279 days | 20% |
| S Luis Van Oler | 8/10 | 4285 days | 23% |
| mariekef | 9/10 | 4326 days | 25% |
| simonbo | 10/10 | 4326 days | 25% |
| alasiac | 10/10 | 4342 days | 25% |
| Katrin Wennin | 10/10 | 4353 days | 25% |
| johanw | 9/10 | 4458 days | 25% |
| linus | 9/10 | 4468 days | 25% |
| AndreaT | 10/10 | 4582 days | 25% |
| JasminA | 7/10 | 4586 days | 22% |
| Philipp | 9/10 | 4586 days | 25% |
| Enno Brehm | 9/10 | 4598 days | 25% |
| HovingL | 10/10 | 4598 days | 25% |
| Gillian | 8/10 | 4606 days | 23% |
| kempt | 10/10 | 4951 days | 25% |
Adjustments
No Adjustment
Several adjustments to the weighted average may be added to improve relevancy and credibility. Rob Roy Track does not meet the criteria for any of these adjustments to apply.
Final Ranking Score
93%
The final ranking score once rounding has been applied. This value is cached and recalculated each day. Therefore it may not be precisely accurate based on the other values presented.
If you have any questions or comments about our ranking score calculation please get in touch at info@rankers.co.nz.