What is a recommendation when setting up a coding panel for active learning?

When setting up a coding panel for active learning, turning off family propagation is a critical recommendation. This practice ensures that when a document is being actively coded, the decisions made apply exclusively to that document rather than automatically extending to its related family of documents. Family propagation can lead to biases in coding, as decisions might be influenced by the characteristics or content of related documents rather than the specific document being examined.

By disabling family propagation, reviewers can focus on the unique aspects of each document. This focused approach reduces the risk of misclassification based on the context provided by associated documents, thus enhancing the accuracy and effectiveness of the active learning process. This improvement in coding precision is vital for developing reliable training sets that inform machine learning algorithms and outcomes in legal or data review contexts.