The identification algorithm on here never ceases to baffle me. Can someone explain what’s holding up this observation from being identified to species-level: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10439937 When I click the “About” breakdown, it shows 2 agreements for species and 1 disagreement,…

[image] joe_fish: When I click the “About” breakdown, it shows 2 agreements for species and 1 disagreement, but none of the IDs seem to actually be disagreeing here. About community taxa: … For the identified taxa that have a score over 2/3 and at least 2 identifications, choose the lowest r…

I agreed and it’s research grade now, but I don’t know why before.

so the fact that there were 4 identifications stating it was Genus B versus the original misidentification as Genus A doesn’t get factored into the species-level ID? it seems like the algorithm should disregard that initial species ID once it has been rendered “maverick”. at that point, it’s not pro…

No, they don’t factor into the species level ID, but they did help move the community taxon to be the correct genus level ID.

I often go through research grade images for one taxon I’m familiar with that is often misidentified as another taxon I’m familiar with. Often, disagreeing with the current research-grade identification makes my identification the maverick and pushes the observation out of research-grade, but that s…

Maverick IDs are more likely to be correct, they are given more weight in the algorithm. It’s not at all true to say it’s not providing value to the identification.

[image] JayAvery: Maverick IDs are more likely to be correct, they are given more weight in the algorithm No, Maverick IDs are given the same amount of weight as other IDs.

Yes, thank you, I didn’t express that very well. Now I can’t find the original inat source that spelled out how mavericks are more likely to be correct. :man_facepalming:

Why is this not Research Grade?

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astra_the_dragon May 13, 2020, 8:55am 18

If I understand correctly, they are not weighted more heavily, but the system is designed deliberately to allow a maverick ID to upend / disrupt the CID, due to its likelihood of being correct.

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Why is this not Research Grade?

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