Hi, 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

74.46%

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 6/10 181 days 89%
CEV 8/10 243 days 100%
Marit 8/10 243 days 100%
TS 8/10 273 days 99%
Desceul 6/10 518 days 77%
Emma 8/10 518 days 88%
Milly Struthers 6/10 699 days 66%
Christopher 7/10 699 days 71%
Kirsty B 8/10 912 days 54%
Liam Dent 6/10 974 days 42%
Howards 8/10 1096 days 36%
@saltyskin 10/10 1218 days 27%
Basil 8/10 1218 days 27%
Caroline 9/10 1277 days 23%
Leet 9/10 1492 days 12%
Emer 8/10 1553 days 9%
Kate 9/10 1704 days 6%
Celeste 5/10 2344 days 3%
Ju 1/10 2344 days 2%
Tessa 7/10 2557 days 3%
Pat Burns 7/10 2710 days 3%
Anders Knutsson 10/10 2768 days 3%
Guillaume 4/10 2769 days 2%
Nadja Kampfhenkel 6/10 2769 days 3%
Mike 9/10 2769 days 3%
Francois & Caroline 8/10 2769 days 3%
Myra Van Dijk 9/10 3102 days 2%
Paul Vinken 9/10 3171 days 2%
Jennifer Duhnke 6/10 3469 days 2%
Megan Jurgensmeyer 7/10 3533 days 2%
Jayma Dancer 8/10 3565 days 2%
Gordon Lee 8/10 3740 days 1%
Clara Bertomeu 8/10 3756 days 1%
Tatiana Rochereau 7/10 3780 days 1%
Carsten Philipp 10/10 3950 days 1%
Rogier K 7/10 3958 days 1%
David and Stephan 10/10 4240 days 0%
GN100 8/10 4321 days 0%
Sidney Stokkers 8/10 4321 days 0%
Pelletier 7/10 4503 days 1%
Justin globalgauthiers.blogspot.com 8/10 4505 days 1%
Janek Belcher 9/10 4513 days 1%
Adele Grandguillot 7/10 4533 days 1%
Sarah Beyeler 8/10 4535 days 1%
Kim Lavener 7/10 4535 days 1%
Hadler 9/10 4537 days 1%
Christine Helleiner 9/10 4537 days 1%
Steffen 7/10 4539 days 1%
Sergey Pronkin 8/10 4539 days 1%
Stina Hultberg 8/10 4540 days 1%
Linus Larsson 7/10 4542 days 1%
Constanza Salas 10/10 4569 days 1%
Claudia 9/10 4573 days 1%
Julia Bonisch 10/10 4579 days 1%
Laura Pleumeekers 7/10 4581 days 1%
Zoe Ross 4/10 4595 days 1%
Hannah 7/10 4626 days 1%
Johannes J 8/10 4717 days 1%
ramy 7/10 4870 days 1%
Menu 9/10 4891 days 1%
Will and Taylor 9/10 4901 days 1%
Patricia Busbach 10/10 4929 days 1%
arnaud paquet 10/10 4960 days 1%
Boule_de_gomme 10/10 5266 days 1%
Dean 5/10 5341 days 1%
JadesWorld 7/10 5387 days 1%
Ryan Dorsey 8/10 5629 days 1%
Kathleen Brown 7/10 5630 days 1%
Jerry & Floon 8/10 5630 days 1%
Faye & Ben 8/10 5655 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

4.86% 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.