The data quality assessment is a summary of an observation's accuracy. All observations start as "casual" grade, and achieve "research" grade when

• the iNat community agrees with the observer's ID, where an "agreeing" identification is one that matches exactly or is of a child taxon of the observer's ID. For example, if Scott says it's a mammal and Ken-ichi says it's Homo sapiens, then Ken-ichi agrees w