codeforboston / codeforboston/cliff-effects

Should Household members upon creation be given a default age or a blank age?

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Description

On the Household tab, when you have the Head of Household or you add a Spouse or Child, the family member is added with a default age (30 for Head of Household/Spouse, and 12 for Child). Should an age be automatically added in?

If the age is auto-filled, it may signal to the user that the field is already filled out, so the user does not need to fill out the form. As a result, it may cause the user to not modify the ages to the correct values -- would that cause issues for the benefits analysis?

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Research direction

Start with the Household tab and trace how default ages are assigned when adding the Head of Household, Spouse, or Child. Review how those age values are used by the benefits analysis; done requires a decided age-entry behavior and agreement on its effect on the form and analysis.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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