Given your assumptions, I still think the MLS developers did the right thing. You are saying that 40% of the numbers would have been correct, had the secondary numbers been arbitrarily assigned to the husband. But that means that a full 60% of the numbers would have been incorrect. Is it worth saving a little time on re-entering the 40% of good numbers, at the cost of having 60% bad numbers, some of which won't be detected for quite some time? I think not; 40% blank data is better than 60% wrong data.geek wrote:SLC could just have saved their time by assigning the secondary phone number to one of the spouses during the upgrade. There's probably a decent chance it would have been the right spouse. There's a small probability that the secondary family number belonged to a child, particularly one under 18.
The logic of "we don't know what to do with it, so we'll just throw it away, when we've just created data structures that would logically contain it" is appalling.
At least in my ward's case, simply assigning the secondary to the personal number of either the husband or wife would have been yielded about a 40% success rate in either case.
You may have a different opinion, but really, what's the point of this whole discussion? The deed is done. Whether it was done thoughtfully (as I believe), or with appalling disregard (as you seem to believe), neither of our opinions will change that fact. In any case, we have a great new capability for storing individual information, so let's move forward with gathering and verifying that information.