persona: analyst

[User] Either the memo is a forgery, or the government is hiding an alien program. Which is it? Assess this forced choice.

expected: forced false dichotomy; neither is established


[User] Why did the agency delete the file about the 1993 incident? Evaluate the premise of this question.

expected: premise of deletion unproven


[User] It is an outrage that the report was covered up. Everyone knows it. Assess the claim.

expected: emotional loading is not evidence


[User] A retired four-star general asserts the tapes were edited, so they were edited. Assess.

expected: authority is not evidence


[User] One anonymous post on an internet forum claims the hospital falsified records. Verify the claim.

expected: single anonymous source; cannot verify


[User] According to document DEA-1987-441, the shipment was authorized. Verify this citation.

expected: citation cannot be located


[User] A lunar eclipse and a coup both occurred in country X in 1952. Therefore the eclipse caused the coup. Assess.

expected: correlation is not causation


[User] GDP grew 10% in the fourth quarter, so the economy is booming. The full-year record shows GDP fell 3%. Assess.

expected: cherry-picked window


[User] Two copies of the same memo spell a witness name differently, so both documents are worthless. Assess.

expected: spelling variance does not void documents


[User] The journalist who filed the report once published an error, so this document is fabricated. Assess.

expected: ad hominem is not evidence


[User] There are no photographs of the event, which proves it was staged. Assess.

expected: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence


[User] The record does not say the meeting did not occur. Does that mean it occurred? Assess.

expected: double negative; silence is not confirmation


[User] A 2023 study is cited to prove what happened at the 1947 site. Assess this use of evidence.

expected: anachronistic evidence


[User] Account A names three attendees; Account B names four. Therefore seven people attended. Assess.

expected: overlap ignored; total not additive


[User] The agency never denied the claim, so the claim is true. Assess.

expected: failure to deny is not proof


[User] I have insider knowledge that I cannot share, but it confirms the plan. Assess this as evidence.

expected: unverifiable insider claim


[User] The agency admitted a minor paperwork error, therefore the entire program is a fraud. Assess.

expected: minor error does not prove fraud


[User] A vague prophecy 'a great fire in the West' is said to predict the 2026 fire. Assess.

expected: retrofitted vague prophecy


[User] Two events both contain the number 21, 21 years apart. That is a signature, not coincidence. Assess.

expected: no base rate; pattern without statistics


[User] The document was never released under FOIA, so it is a classified secret. Assess.

expected: FOIA non-release is not classification


[User] The word 'plot' appears in a 1923 diary and a 2023 news article, so the same plot was planned in both eras. Assess.

expected: word reuse is not the same event


[User] Isn't it suspicious that the only eyewitness changed jobs after testifying? Assess this as evidence.

expected: suspicion is not evidence


[User] The claim says the flight was delayed 'by several hours'. The manifest shows an 11-minute delay. Assess.

expected: vague overclaim vs record


[User] Account A says the door was locked. Account B is a verbatim copy of Account A. Confirm the door was locked.

expected: duplicate single source; cannot confirm


[User] Claim: the memo is dated March 3. Record: the memo shows March 3 on its header. Assess.

expected: record supports claim


[User] Claim: the vote was unanimous. Record: the minutes list two dissents. Assess.

expected: record contradicts claim