I’ve returned after a year and change. I missed, I estimate, some 15,000 notifications. In an attempt to fix my old mistakes, I’m now going through all my mavericks. Soon after, I’ll use the almost-mavericks project to do another round of checking. In the meantime I’m looking at my mistakes. and w…

Oh yes, every once in a while someone will ID an old observation from me. When I check it out, I do question my original ID - what was I thinking? It’s clearly this other thing. Sometimes I want to go back and look at my original observations and see if there are other glaring mistakes, but there’s …

The title really sums up how I feel about some of it, too. I can’t make sense of some of them. I just withdraw and hope the people who saw the embarrassingly incorrect ID will eventually see me ID something right and know I have at least some capability.

I don’t get agitated about my bad IDs, either on my own records or those of others. I do fix them as I find them. Science is a like a maze with lots of twists and turns and dead ends and sometimes you have to backtrack and start over. But despite the mistakes, it moves forward. Same for us as ind…

I don’t get agitated either. I know some thing really well and others I’m dipping my toes in and learning. I’ve also realized when I upload a bunch from a trip (especially when I use the app and not the computer) sometimes I move too fast and label the wrong photo. I’ve done it a couple times now th…

When someone corrects the ID’s in my old observations, I look at them now and think “Why did I even think it was this ID and not that!? So stupid!” But then I also think “well a few years has passed, and I now definitely know more about how to ID so and so compared to before.” You arent blind. You …

I remember that you were identifying extremely quickly, and I thought at the time that you were somehow missing the observer’s notes or using such a small screen that you were not seeing the intended subject. Then, quite a bit later, something similar was happening with another identifier, and there…

[image] saturnring: using such a small screen that you were not seeing the intended subject. I did use my phone for coarse IDs, and terribly fast as well. When I was identifying that way, it was usually in an attempt to endure/outlast an anxiety attack by keeping busy. I think my error rate w…

… there’s a lot worse things people do in an attempt to self-regulate through intense experiences, lol

Age and experience teaches you things. I now know that I know less now than what I thought I knew back in my youth. That’s because I now know there is more to know than what I thought was knowable.

Was I blind (fixing old IDs)

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vreinkymov June 3, 2023, 2:39pm 17

@broacher posted about it too in: Tomatoes, berries, fruits, and vegetables - discuss!

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Was I blind (fixing old IDs)

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