# Observations/Identifiers count discrepancies

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observations-identifiers-count-discrepancies/17880>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [November 5, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observations-identifiers-count-discrepancies/17880 "2020-11-05T16:59:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![jdmore](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jdmore/32/1116_2.png) [@jdmore](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jdmore)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observations-identifiers-count-discrepancies/17880/5 "2020-12-14T19:15:23Z")

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Hi @odole your post and analysis seemed relevant to this recent bug report, so I hope it’s ok that I moved it here.

Thank you for your detailed analysis of the count differences. Not sure I have any definitive answers, and the developers might have to answer for sure. But a couple of factors that might be at play here are:

- are only active IDs being counted, or active + inactive?
- are they being counted on observations of all quality grades, or are Casual observations being excluded?

Maybe someone else will be able to chime in with better answers.

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