Hey, 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 Mangahuia 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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Mangahuia Campsite

Valid Reviews

70 Valid Reviews

The Mangahuia Campsite experience has a total of 71 reviews. There are 70 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 70 valid reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 9
13%
9/10 12
17%
8/10 22
31%
7/10 16
23%
6/10 6
9%
5/10 2
3%
4/10 2
3%
3/10 0
0%
2/10 0
0%
1/10 1
1%

77.29% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Mangahuia Campsite valid reviews is 77.29% and is based on 70 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

22 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 70 valid reviews, the experience has 22 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.

Below is the distribution of ratings for the 22 face-to-face reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 3
14%
9/10 5
23%
8/10 6
27%
7/10 7
32%
6/10 0
0%
5/10 1
5%
4/10 0
0%
3/10 0
0%
2/10 0
0%
1/10 0
0%

80.45% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Mangahuia Campsite face-to-face reviews is 80.45% and is based on 22 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.

Weighted Average

74.36%

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
Fine 6/10 222 days 90%
CEV 8/10 284 days 100%
Marit 8/10 284 days 100%
TS 8/10 314 days 99%
Desceul 6/10 559 days 76%
Emma 8/10 559 days 86%
Milly Struthers 6/10 740 days 63%
Christopher 7/10 740 days 68%
Kirsty B 8/10 953 days 51%
Liam Dent 6/10 1015 days 39%
Howards 8/10 1137 days 34%
@saltyskin 10/10 1259 days 25%
Basil 8/10 1259 days 24%
Caroline 9/10 1318 days 21%
Leet 9/10 1533 days 10%
Emer 8/10 1594 days 8%
Kate 9/10 1745 days 6%
Celeste 5/10 2385 days 3%
Ju 1/10 2385 days 2%
Tessa 7/10 2598 days 3%
Pat Burns 7/10 2751 days 3%
Anders Knutsson 10/10 2809 days 3%
Guillaume 4/10 2810 days 2%
Nadja Kampfhenkel 6/10 2810 days 3%
Mike 9/10 2810 days 3%
Francois & Caroline 8/10 2810 days 3%
Myra Van Dijk 9/10 3143 days 3%
Paul Vinken 9/10 3212 days 2%
Jennifer Duhnke 6/10 3510 days 2%
Megan Jurgensmeyer 7/10 3574 days 2%
Jayma Dancer 8/10 3606 days 2%
Gordon Lee 8/10 3781 days 1%
Clara Bertomeu 8/10 3797 days 1%
Tatiana Rochereau 7/10 3821 days 1%
Carsten Philipp 10/10 3991 days 1%
Rogier K 7/10 3999 days 1%
David and Stephan 10/10 4281 days 0%
GN100 8/10 4362 days 0%
Sidney Stokkers 8/10 4362 days 0%
Pelletier 7/10 4544 days 1%
Justin globalgauthiers.blogspot.com 8/10 4546 days 1%
Janek Belcher 9/10 4554 days 1%
Adele Grandguillot 7/10 4574 days 1%
Sarah Beyeler 8/10 4576 days 1%
Kim Lavener 7/10 4576 days 1%
Hadler 9/10 4578 days 1%
Christine Helleiner 9/10 4578 days 1%
Steffen 7/10 4580 days 1%
Sergey Pronkin 8/10 4580 days 1%
Stina Hultberg 8/10 4581 days 1%
Linus Larsson 7/10 4583 days 1%
Constanza Salas 10/10 4610 days 1%
Claudia 9/10 4614 days 1%
Julia Bonisch 10/10 4620 days 1%
Laura Pleumeekers 7/10 4622 days 1%
Zoe Ross 4/10 4636 days 1%
Hannah 7/10 4667 days 1%
Johannes J 8/10 4758 days 1%
ramy 7/10 4911 days 1%
Menu 9/10 4932 days 1%
Will and Taylor 9/10 4942 days 1%
Patricia Busbach 10/10 4970 days 1%
arnaud paquet 10/10 5001 days 1%
Boule_de_gomme 10/10 5307 days 1%
Dean 5/10 5382 days 1%
JadesWorld 7/10 5428 days 1%
Ryan Dorsey 8/10 5670 days 1%
Kathleen Brown 7/10 5671 days 1%
Jerry & Floon 8/10 5671 days 1%
Faye & Ben 8/10 5696 days 1%

Adjustments

No Adjustment

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

Balancing Adjustment

4.90% 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

79%

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.