Scientists transmit some interpretive expertise, including thresholds such as how pink is too pink, largely through oral tradition.

“Yeah. And the experts are very important. So to your point about like knowing which, uh, you know, what-- how pink is too pink.”

“Um, these are things that are passed down almost by oral tradition by scientists. So when you look at a paper, um, you know, you have all these nice graphs that are actually the amalgamation of hundreds or thousands of assays.”