The Definitive Spindrift Tasting Experience Rankings

Note: This is NOT paid content for Spindrift, but a legitimate over-the-top appreciation of the sparkling water

A few weeks back, Spindrift offered the "Drifter Pack", a tasting experience that included 1 of each sparkling water flavor:

Compiling the ratings of 8 different people, I believe I've calculated a robust, indisputable ranking of all flavors.

Everyone was asked to rate each flavor on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest, and 5 being the average, and the average ratings result in the following ranking set:

OrdinalRank	AverageRating	Flavor	Brand
1	7.43	Lime	Spindrift
2	7.33	Pineapple	Spindrift
3	7.21	Lemon	Spindrift
4	6.17	Arnold Palmer	Spindrift
5	6.00	Grapefruit	Spindrift
6	5.71	Raspberry Lime	Spindrift
7	5.57	Cranberry Raspberry	Spindrift
8	5.36	Blackberry	Spindrift
9	5.00	Orange Mango	Spindrift
10	4.64	Strawberry	Spindrift
11	2.00	Cucumber	Spindrift

However, we need to go a step further - human bias will creep in to a cardinal rating set like this. Case-and-point: my ratings, which successfully have a median of 5.00, have a mean of 5.82 and a mode of 4, meaning they're slightly positively-skewed:

*Scale relative to all Spindrifts, out of 10
	Count	Mean	Median	Mode
MS	11	5.82	5.00	4

To adjust for this, former guest poster Jason Laso used the technique of calculating each individual's percentile on each rating, which normalizes each person's rating set to be from 0 to 10 and centered around 5:

Flavor	MS Rating	MS Adjusted
Pineapple	10	10
Blackberry	9	8
Grapefruit	9	8
Strawberry	8	7
Lime	7	6
Cranberry Raspberry	5	4
Raspberry Lime	5	4
Arnold Palmer	4	2
Lemon	4	2
Cucumber	2	1
Orange Mango	1	0

Doing this on all ratings provides a better assessment over all 8 preferences, and gives a definitive ranking of:

Rank	AdjustedRating	Flavor
1	6.82	Lime
2	6.80	Lemon
3	6.67	Pineapple
4	5.86	Grapefruit
5	5.00	Raspberry Lime
6	4.67	Arnold Palmer
7	4.20	Cranberry Raspberry
7	4.20	Blackberry
9	3.90	Orange Mango
10	3.16	Strawberry
11	0.33	Cucumber

#1 overall: