I don’t think we fully realize the suggestion bias we have when we open an observation that already has an identification. The mental path of least resistance is to say, “Oh, I see how that thing could be that species,” rather than look closely at the picture and go through the rigors of identifying…

This is a pretty sweet idea for a research project. Not sure that makes it worth it to iNat staff to implement, but it would be cool to see if there is an effect, and, if so, how big it is. One sort of issue is that some sort of ID process has to happen to get the observations close enough to an ID…

Those who weren’t around for the Google Group will probably not have seen this, but @loarie did a study of “blind” IDs a while ago - it’s reported in some blog posts by him here . I don’t know if that experiment is still active - if so perhaps Scott can let people know how they can participate.

Yes, we are still measuring identifications that are made ‘blind’ - ie IDs that have been made through the https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/identification_quality_experiment and they have been somewhat useful in our explorations into reputation modeling. You can use https://www.inaturalist.org/obs…

I just tried out the blind ID and had the same question. it turns out that you can sort of game this by looking at your identification list: https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications/tchakamaura . It’s always sorted in reverse chronological order, so having the blind-ID modal in one tab, and the I…

My id error rate seemed a lot higher with blind id. I often didn’t know which organism was being IDed and chose the wrong one. Maybe an option to turn off who made the observation to avoid considering their skill level or something, but it seems more important to just remind people not to agree unle…

Wow, it’s super cool that you guys are already working on this and thanks for the links. I’ll read them the next chance I get. Since there are so many ways of using iNat, I should probably clarify that 99% of the time I use the Explore tab to search my state in ‘grid’ view to see the most recent po…

[image] taitsougstad: I think we’ve all seen situations where an observation ID can be confirmed by four people, and then someone comes along and argues for a different ID and suddenly everyone shifts over to the new ID. There is something fishy about that kind of thing! i don’t know. I think…

The power of social conformity is considerable…even with simple “objective facts” like the length of simple lines on a card– Solomon Asch’s classic experiments on social conformity in the 50s . Asch’s original experiment involved small face-to-face groups where the pressure to conform was understanda…

There is also an element of reward for being the (first) one to spot the mistake. I feel a sense of satisfaction on being the first to put an ID, especially if it is followed by confirmations from identifiers that I respect. I started in iNat not knowing many taxa, and i have worked hard to learn as…

Make An Optional "Hide Current Identifications" Setting

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tchakamaura May 17, 2019, 8:41pm 5

After an id is made, the comments should be reinstated. Comments include info such as which taxon is to be identified so this will help to identify any mistakes after the fact.

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Make An Optional "Hide Current Identifications" Setting

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