Track record
How our photo opinions compare with later DNA results. Counts only, taken from the site's own records.
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How this is counted
- A member asks for an opinion. Later they test the animal and send the lab report. A reviewer compares the two.
- Agreed: every gene the report confirms was named under "consistent with", and every gene named there was either confirmed by the report or listed under "cannot be told apart from".
- Partly agreed: some named genes were confirmed, but the opinion also named a gene the report did not confirm, or missed one the report found.
- Disagreed: the report rules out what the opinion named.
- Hets never count either way, because a photo cannot confirm them.
- An opinion on a reviewer's own animal is never counted.
How to read it
- Only animals somebody chose to test are counted, and people tend to test the doubtful ones and the valuable ones. Opinions nobody tested are not assumed right.
- At present the reviewer who gave an opinion also scores it. We say so here until a second person does the scoring.
- We publish counts, not a percentage. A rate will appear only when the counts are large enough to mean something, with the raw numbers beside it.
No published study measures how accurately morphs can be identified from photos, so there is no outside figure to borrow. These counts are the only evidence we cite for our own opinions.