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    It is not the case that Mechanical procedures require skilled interpretation at every stage, reintroducing the expert judgment they were meant to eliminate (Daston & Galison, 2007).

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    • 1.Mechanical procedures reduce *total* expert judgment by standardizing decisions, even if some judgment remains at initialization or validation stages.
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    • 2.Distinguishing judgment that *designs* a procedure from judgment that *applies* it conflates two different epistemic roles; eliminating the latter still improves objectivity.
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    • 3.Human-only interpretation varies significantly between experts; mechanical procedures create consistency that traditional expertise never achieved.
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    • 1.Sample preparation, calibration, and threshold-setting in automated analysis require subjective choices that significantly affect outcomes.
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    • 2.Machine learning models trained on human-curated datasets embed the biases and interpretive choices of their trainers into supposedly objective results.
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    • 3.Validation and quality control of mechanical procedures demand expert judgment to recognize when outputs are anomalous or unreliable.
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