but outside of these exceptional cases of misassignment, using these expressions gives the impression the assignation is incorrectly made way more often than it in fact is.
I see what you mean, but perhaps to be charitable (if not pedantic), I feel like the term “assigned” doesn’t necessarily tell you about accuracy, reliability (or perhaps goodness) of an assignment. For example, if I hear someone say “the policy-maker assigned a high economic value to X” or “the scientist assigned a high probability to the chance of a drought”, I wouldn’t think absent more info, that it was likely correct or incorrect, just that someone was reporting someone else’s judgement.
I see what you mean, but perhaps to be charitable (if not pedantic), I feel like the term “assigned” doesn’t necessarily tell you about accuracy, reliability (or perhaps goodness) of an assignment. For example, if I hear someone say “the policy-maker assigned a high economic value to X” or “the scientist assigned a high probability to the chance of a drought”, I wouldn’t think absent more info, that it was likely correct or incorrect, just that someone was reporting someone else’s judgement.