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Can anyone tell me why this isn't a research grade identification? I have other ID's that only have the genus, we have this down to the correct species, three people agree.
Tigran's correct, its now research grade because >50% of the community now agrees with the owner (expand Data Quality Assessment to the right) but its still counting ryanubrown's ID as a 'disagree'. There might be a better way for the system to deal with this, but its ambiguous in cases like this whether ryanubrown is saying 'I agree to species but I'm not sure beyond that' or if he's saying 'you're wrong about the subspecies so I disagree with those IDs'. What would be the best way for the system to deal with this?
We could just call Loarie to tip the scales, or maybe the research grade assessment should ignore the ssp identification, and just use the species Identifier.
In other words, it would still be research grade, even if the ssp. identification is wrong, and TT was arguing that we had misidentified the subspecies, it still would qualify as research grade, as long as the species matches.
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Can anyone tell me why this isn't a research grade identification? I have other ID's that only have the genus, we have this down to the correct species, three people agree.
My guess is because ryanubrown's idntified it the species level. And the system considers this a a discrepancy.
Tigran's correct, its now research grade because >50% of the community now agrees with the owner (expand Data Quality Assessment to the right) but its still counting ryanubrown's ID as a 'disagree'. There might be a better way for the system to deal with this, but its ambiguous in cases like this whether ryanubrown is saying 'I agree to species but I'm not sure beyond that' or if he's saying 'you're wrong about the subspecies so I disagree with those IDs'. What would be the best way for the system to deal with this?
We could just call Loarie to tip the scales, or maybe the research grade assessment should ignore the ssp identification, and just use the species Identifier.
In other words, it would still be research grade, even if the ssp. identification is wrong, and TT was arguing that we had misidentified the subspecies, it still would qualify as research grade, as long as the species matches.
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