The data quality assessment is a summary of an observation's accuracy. All
observations start as "casual" grade, and become
"needs ID" when
- the observation has a date
- the observation is georeferenced (i.e. has lat/lon coordinates)
- the observation has photos or sounds
- the observation isn't of a human
Observations become "research grade" when
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the iNat community agrees on species-level ID or lower, i.e.
when more than 2/3 of identifiers agree on a taxon
Observations will revert to "casual" if the above conditions aren't met or the community agrees
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the location doesn't look
accurate (e.g. monkeys in the middle of the ocean,
hippos in office buildings, etc.)
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the organism isn't wild/naturalized (e.g. captive or cultivated by humans
or intelligent space aliens)
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the observation doesn't present evidence of an
organism, e.g. images of landscapes, water features,
rocks, etc.
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the observation doesn't present recent (~100 years) evidence of
the organism (e.g. fossils, but tracks, scat, and dead leaves
are ok)
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the observation no longer needs an ID and the community ID is above family
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the observer has opted out of the community ID and the community
ID taxon is not an ancestor or descendant of the taxon associated
with the observer's ID
And if that wasn't complicated enough, there are also situations where the system gets a vote:
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The system will vote that the observation is not wild/naturalized
if there are at least 10 other observations of a genus or lower in
the smallest county-, state-, or country-equivalent place that
contains this observation and 80% or more of those observations
have been marked as not wild/naturalized.
Comments & Identifications
What an astonishing weevil, @tonyg, this is iNaturalist's Observation of the Day!
We've posted it to our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts.
found it!
Looks like a good match to me:
http://salagubang.net/blog/2008/11/17/a-live-pachyrrhynchus-congestus-in-banaue/
Good job on finding the ID!
Also, check out the microscopy of this species -- WOW.
https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.75.041919
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