There's no doubt that clever software can make assessment a lot easier, and a lot faster to do. But if you don't know what's going on under the hood, you can't really make a reasonable judgement as to its accuracy.
This was brought home to me a few years ago. I was inspecting a school's Computing provision, and one of the teachers said to me:
Hey, Terry, …
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