Ranking Score Explained

G'day, 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 Henry Creek 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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Henry Creek Campsite

Valid Reviews

95 Valid Reviews

The Henry Creek Campsite experience has a total of 96 reviews. There are 95 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 95 valid reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 25
26%
9/10 14
15%
8/10 22
23%
7/10 16
17%
6/10 5
5%
5/10 6
6%
4/10 2
2%
3/10 1
1%
2/10 4
4%
1/10 0
0%

78.21% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Henry Creek Campsite valid reviews is 78.21% and is based on 95 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

35 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 95 valid reviews, the experience has 35 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.

Below is the distribution of ratings for the 35 face-to-face reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 10
29%
9/10 6
17%
8/10 7
20%
7/10 4
11%
6/10 2
6%
5/10 3
9%
4/10 1
3%
3/10 0
0%
2/10 2
6%
1/10 0
0%

78.00% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Henry Creek Campsite face-to-face reviews is 78.00% and is based on 35 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.

Weighted Average

76.99%

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
Max 5/10 21 days 80%
Rebecca 8/10 235 days 100%
Steve 8/10 387 days 94%
Cholly 10/10 418 days 95%
Susan 8/10 509 days 88%
Amy Fortin-Barrette 8/10 570 days 84%
Vicky 2/10 632 days 37%
Srinivas Prasad Bheemanadam 10/10 660 days 79%
Brianna 4/10 752 days 47%
Jenny Pentelow 5/10 1056 days 31%
Helen 10/10 1300 days 22%
The Gillies 9/10 1362 days 18%
Michelle 10/10 1452 days 14%
Niven 9/10 1756 days 5%
Thad 7/10 1848 days 5%
Will M 10/10 1878 days 5%
Julianne McKie 8/10 1879 days 5%
Felix 6/10 2062 days 4%
lucy Ashenden 8/10 2062 days 5%
Julie 9/10 2062 days 5%
Glen Marshall UK 8/10 2093 days 5%
Armando Rodriguez Bringas 10/10 2093 days 5%
Megan Belanger 8/10 2121 days 5%
Francois & Caroline 7/10 2152 days 4%
JT 3/10 2152 days 2%
Rebecca Rodeghiero 7/10 2183 days 4%
Page Family 9/10 2213 days 4%
Jill Grimwood 9/10 2478 days 3%
Annina Jarvinen 8/10 2536 days 3%
Carol Brislane 8/10 2822 days 3%
Craig Eagleton 9/10 2856 days 3%
Victoria Strong 10/10 2880 days 3%
Chelsea Thomas-Hamblin 2/10 2905 days 1%
Joanne Woo 10/10 2942 days 3%
Fi Glasgow 10/10 2977 days 3%
Connie Hopper 7/10 3143 days 2%
Jenny Adams 9/10 3171 days 2%
Lena Wesselink 7/10 3202 days 2%
Marina 8/10 3214 days 2%
Werner S 6/10 3236 days 2%
Mark Sercombe 7/10 3238 days 2%
Suzanne Vermeulen 7/10 3309 days 2%
Emma Rochester 10/10 3322 days 2%
Jessie Karsif 10/10 3451 days 2%
sydneyaharris 10/10 3553 days 2%
Sebastiaan Kemperman 6/10 3568 days 1%
Benjamin Scherer 10/10 3576 days 2%
Jess Rose 9/10 3581 days 2%
Jan Rüegg 7/10 3612 days 1%
Mike R 8/10 3626 days 2%
Cora and Franzi 10/10 3635 days 1%
Alexandre Moleiro 7/10 3643 days 1%
bzh974 7/10 3643 days 1%
Sander and Eliza Hembrarskamp 8/10 3796 days 1%
Justin globalgauthiers.blogspot.com 8/10 3888 days 1%
Karolina Gren 2/10 3888 days 0%
Corinne 9/10 3889 days 1%
Julian Kuemme 6/10 3894 days 1%
Mandy Reich 6/10 3895 days 1%
Max Backelandt 7/10 3898 days 1%
Marie Toulemonde 9/10 3898 days 1%
Mark 8/10 3901 days 1%
Annika Marz 8/10 3911 days 1%
Julian Zeissler 5/10 3911 days 1%
Sheila Galpin 7/10 3917 days 1%
Thomas Chacko 8/10 3919 days 1%
Antoine 8/10 3928 days 1%
Louison Laissus 8/10 3928 days 1%
Arthur Langlume 9/10 3942 days 1%
Becky Davis 5/10 3946 days 1%
Johanna Bak 2/10 3966 days 0%
Magdalene Zech 7/10 3968 days 1%
Marco Newald 10/10 3968 days 1%
Pioter Jurkowski 8/10 3978 days 1%
Rhi 5/10 4070 days 0%
Florian 9/10 4253 days 0%
Katharina 8/10 4271 days 0%
Luise Fuchs 5/10 4274 days 0%
Kadyan 7/10 4284 days 0%
patrick+ katerina 7/10 4284 days 0%
Katharina Littlemann 8/10 4296 days 0%
Camille 10/10 4379 days 0%
Maxine Gilman 10/10 4644 days 1%
Jaap & Susanne 4/10 4658 days 1%
Stefes Wencke 10/10 4662 days 1%
Mirando4ka 10/10 4678 days 1%
Jory Singer 10/10 4755 days 1%
Brian Jones 10/10 4994 days 1%
Julie and Russ Charles 7/10 4997 days 1%
Jacob 10/10 5002 days 1%
Galamez 10/10 5022 days 1%
Doris Neuber 9/10 5042 days 1%
Puravida 10/10 5166 days 1%
Hans and Astrid 10/10 5357 days 1%
jessica 9/10 5634 days 1%

Adjustments

No Adjustment

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

Balancing Adjustment

3.92% 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

81%

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.