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  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "slug": "checklist-vs-judgment-100-case-boundary-test",
  "title": "Where Does a Checklist End and Judgment Begin? A 100-Case Test",
  "runDate": "2026-07-28",
  "executed": true,
  "sanitized": true,
  "question": "Across one hundred quality decisions in five knowledge-work domains, which decisions reduce to declared observables and which require contextual interpretation?",
  "baseline": "A universal checklist creates false assurance when it treats adequacy, meaning, or consequence as if each were a field-presence test.",
  "protocol": [
    "Freeze twenty cases in each of five domains, evenly split between deterministic observables and interpretive judgments.",
    "Permit checklist decisions only when the acceptance rule is fully represented in inspectable fields.",
    "Preserve every judgment case as a human-review handoff rather than forcing an automated answer."
  ],
  "sample": {
    "cases": 100,
    "domains": 5
  },
  "results": {
    "checklistDecidable": 50,
    "judgmentRequired": 50,
    "forcedAutomation": 0
  },
  "negativeFindings": [
    "Half of the cases remained outside the checklist because the relevant standard depended on interpretation rather than missing data."
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "The case classification is a designed boundary atlas, not an empirical estimate of how much professional work can be automated."
  ],
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