Data conflict: "This person had xx children. Most people have..."
So what if "most people have" up to 12 children? Why should that give a DATA CONFLICT message? Have had this 2 days in a row now. Yesterday it was husband's great-grandparents (French-Canadian Catholics). Today it was my great-grandfather who had several children by each of 2 wives (only 8 survived). I can see flagging an unusual occurrence, but it's not something that's actually conflicting data.
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@JanetStory thank you for your feedback. This is the place where possible errors and inconsistencies are put for evaluation. Could you suggest a better wording? I can definitely pass this along.
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It think the idea is that the conflict is between the data in the profile and population statistics. I have no idea what kind of cut off FamilySearch used for the algorithm but a common one is to consider any value of more than two standard deviations above the mean for whatever is being measured to be, not abnormal, but outside of normal enough to warrant a second look.
It can be hard to determine what the cut off should be. Too low and everything gets flagged (too many false positives). Too high and nothing gets flagged (too many false negatives.) It's a tricky balance.
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