Just a not-very-important question that popped into my head while doing some IDing this morning: What are the differences in taxa for average time to ID their observations? I’m sure these differences do exist, just from my own anecdotal experience. Plant and insects often take a while, birds are of…

I could’ve sworn that one of the blog posts in the last couple of months compared time to ID by taxon. I thought it was the 300,000 species post ( https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/42626-we-passed-300-000-species-observed-on-inaturalist#description ) or the 50 million observation post ( https://www.inat…

I agree, fungi seem to take the longest and birds are ID’d the fastest.

In lieu of something more exact, a quick and dirty way is just to see what percent of observations submitted in, say, October last year are RG versus Needs ID today (~1 year): Birds: 151,342 RG of 160,228 Verifiable (94.5%) Fungi: 33,782 RG of 119,517 Verifiable (28.3%) Plants: 256,505 RG of 462,…

Yes, I took a look at this a little, and I think it’s a good first pass at addressing the issue! But I also know some groups are really hard to ID at all from pics, so this method doesn’t separate the time to ID actually IDable observations from those that will never be IDed as it isn’t possible. I…

[image] cthawley: separate the time to ID actually IDable observations from those that will never be IDed as it isn’t possible generally, there’s not really a good way to separate out “things that will never be IDed because it isn’t possible”. there is the “it’s as good as it can be” flag, bu…

Yes, I agree that there’s definitely an issue with knowing what the “final” ID of any given observation that isn’t at RG yet. I guess one way you could do this would be to take a set of observations that have been on iNat for some arbitrarily long length of time which would allow most observations …

[image] hanly: Birds: 151,342 RG of 160,228 Verifiable (94.5%) Fungi: 33,782 RG of 119,517 Verifiable (28.3%) Plants: 256,505 RG of 462,850 Verifiable (55.4%) Insects: 176,300 RG of 316,962 Verifiable (55.6%) Mammals: 26,372 RG of 30,086 Verifiable (87.7%) Annelid worms: 286 RG of 1,750 Ver…

Taxa Differences in Time to ID?

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Taxa Differences in Time to ID?

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