A.19.UNM:6 - Bias‑Annotation
Common cognitive traps around normalization:
- Normalization-as-truth bias: treating NCVs as “objective” instead of “objective under declared invariants and validity window”.
- Hidden-steps bias: assuming normalization “happened somewhere” and skipping explicit routing/pins.
- Unit-blindness: treating numeric sameness as semantic sameness.
- Proxy legitimacy: assuming a popular method is legitimate without evidence pins or validity region.
Mitigation: enforce explicit NormalizationMethodInstance + validity window + evidence pins; and distinguish the directed output, optional classes and any separately justified operation or query on them.