Student missing after an out-of-state car crash found deceased three days later

To check this alert, Claude (an AI) read it in full 25 separate times, independently. Each read decided whether the message answers each of the six questions and gave a short reason. A final reviewer then weighed all 25 and wrote the plain-English verdict you see when you open a row. The score (for example 22/25) is how many reads agreed; the 25 individual reads are tucked underneath if you want to check them.

• Sourcepresent14/25

  Final assessment

  Most reads count this as institutionally sourced, since it repeatedly invokes 'our entire Morehouse family' and references Student Services as speaking for the college, though a substantial minority felt no formal signature or office name was ever given.

  Who is sending the alert and who is responding. People act faster on a message from a clearly identifiable, credible sender, such as a named department, the police, or a branded alert system, than on an anonymous notice. A branded signature counts.

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  1. present: Sent as Morehouse community message referencing 'our entire Morehouse family' and Student Services.
  2. absent: No sender or authority identified; just relayed as community news.
  3. absent: No sender or authority identified, reads as an announcement without institutional signature naming who sent it.
  4. absent: No sender/authority identified, just a community message about a loss.
  5. present: Refers to 'our entire Morehouse family' identifying the university as sender.
  6. present: Refers to Morehouse community and Student Services as the sender.
  7. present: Signed by implication from Morehouse ('Our entire Morehouse family').
  8. absent: No sender or authority identified, just an announcement of a death.
  9. present: Sent by Morehouse Student Services/college leadership.
  10. present: Message is from Morehouse (Student Services) reporting on 'our entire Morehouse family'
  11. absent: No sender/authority identified, just a bereavement message.
  12. absent: No sender/authority identified beyond generic university reference.
  13. absent: No sender or authority identified, just university student services referenced generically.
  14. absent: No sender/authority identified; just a Morehouse community memorial message with no signature or office named.
  15. absent: No sender/authority identified; reads as a Student Services memorial notice with no signature or agency named.
  16. present: Signed by/about Morehouse Student Services and 'our Morehouse family', identifying institution.
  17. present: Sent from Student Services, referencing 'our entire Morehouse family'.
  18. absent: No sender/authority identified beyond implied university, no branded tag or agency named.
  19. present: Refers to 'Morehouse family' and Student Services as issuer.
  20. present: Signed institutionally as Morehouse family statement, referencing Student Services.
  21. present: Signed by university via 'Morehouse family' framing, functions as an institutional message.
  22. present: Signed implicitly as Morehouse community message referencing Student Services and Morehouse family.
  23. absent: No sender/authority identified, just 'Student Services' referenced in passing narrative.
  24. present: Signed 'Our entire Morehouse family' identifying Morehouse/Student Services.
  25. present: Sent via Student Services on behalf of the Morehouse family/community.
• Hazardabsent0/25

  Final assessment

  Unanimous: this is a bereavement notice reporting a student's death after being missing, not a description of any ongoing threat or hazard to the community.

  What the threat actually is. A complete warning names the specific danger, such as a shooter, a fire, a tornado, or a gas leak, rather than a vague emergency, because people decide what to do based on what they are facing.

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  1. absent: Reports a death, no hazard/threat named, this is a bereavement notice not a threat alert.
  2. absent: No threat described; this is a death announcement, not a hazard.
  3. absent: Describes a death after being reported missing, not a specific ongoing threat/hazard.
  4. absent: No specific threat, this is a death/missing person announcement, not a hazard.
  5. absent: No threat is described; this is a bereavement notice about a death, not a hazard.
  6. absent: No transmitted threat; this is a death notification, not a hazard.
  7. absent: This is a death notification, not a threat; no hazard is described.
  8. absent: No threat named, this is a bereavement announcement.
  9. absent: No ongoing threat named, just a death announcement.
  10. absent: This is a death notification, not a threat hazard; no specific threat named
  11. absent: Death announcement, not a threat/hazard.
  12. absent: Reports a death, not an ongoing threat/hazard to protect against.
  13. absent: No hazard, this is a death notification, not an emergency threat.
  14. absent: Describes a death and prior missing-person status but names no ongoing threat to the community.
  15. absent: Death from being reported missing is described, not an ongoing threat or hazard type.
  16. absent: No specific threat; announces a death, not a hazard requiring protective action.
  17. absent: Describes a death/missing report, not an ongoing threat needing action.
  18. absent: This is a death notification, not a specific threat; no hazard to community stated.
  19. absent: A death is announced but no ongoing threat or hazard type is named.
  20. absent: Death is reported but no threat or hazard is named, this is a bereavement notice.
  21. absent: No specific threat named; this is a death notification, not a hazard alert.
  22. absent: No specific threat named, it is a death/missing-person announcement, not a hazard.
  23. absent: A death is reported but no active threat or hazard to campus is named.
  24. absent: A death notification, not a specific threat to the community.
  25. absent: Describes a death notification, not a specific ongoing threat or hazard.
• Locationabsent0/25

  Final assessment

  Unanimous: no location of any kind, on or off campus, is given anywhere in the message.

  Where the threat is. Saying whether danger is in a specific building, a part of campus, or area-wide lets people judge their own proximity and choose a safe direction. Without a where, a warning is hard to act on precisely.

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  1. absent: No specific location given for any threat.
  2. absent: No location given.
  3. absent: No location given.
  4. absent: No location given.
  5. absent: No location is given anywhere in the message.
  6. absent: No location given, only home town mentioned.
  7. absent: No location given for any event.
  8. absent: No location given.
  9. absent: No location given.
  10. absent: No location given
  11. absent: No location given.
  12. absent: No location given.
  13. absent: No location given.
  14. absent: No location is given.
  15. absent: No location given, just institutional affiliation Morehouse.
  16. absent: No location mentioned beyond general campus.
  17. absent: No location given.
  18. absent: No location given.
  19. absent: No location given for any incident.
  20. absent: No location given.
  21. absent: No location given.
  22. absent: No location given.
  23. absent: No location given for any event.
  24. absent: No location given.
  25. absent: No location given for the incident.
• Guidanceabsent0/25

  Final assessment

  Unanimous: the message only asks readers to hold the deceased's loved ones in their thoughts and prayers; it gives no protective action.

  The protective action to take. A clear, specific instruction, such as shelter in place, evacuate, avoid the area, or run-hide-fight, drives faster and more correct protective behavior than describing the threat alone.

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  1. absent: No protective action instructed.
  2. absent: No protective action instructed.
  3. absent: No protective action instructed, only asks for thoughts and prayers.
  4. absent: No protective action instructed.
  5. absent: No protective action is instructed, only a request to hold loved ones in thoughts.
  6. absent: No protective action instructed.
  7. absent: No protective action instructed.
  8. absent: No protective action instructed.
  9. absent: No protective action instructed.
  10. absent: No protective action instructed
  11. absent: No protective action requested.
  12. absent: No protective action instructed.
  13. absent: No protective action instructed.
  14. absent: No protective action instructed, only asking readers to keep loved ones in thoughts.
  15. absent: No protective action instructed, only asks for thoughts and prayers.
  16. absent: No protective action instructed, only asks for thoughts/prayers.
  17. absent: No protective action instructed.
  18. absent: No protective action instructed.
  19. absent: No protective action instructed.
  20. absent: No protective action instructed.
  21. absent: No protective action instructed.
  22. absent: No protective action instructed.
  23. absent: No protective action instructed.
  24. absent: No protective action instructed.
  25. absent: No protective action instructed to recipients.
• Timeabsent0/25

  Final assessment

  Unanimous: only the vague phrase 'over the weekend' appears, with no clock time or specific date.

  When the message applies. A timestamp, the word now or immediately, or a phrase like until further notice tells the reader whether the danger is current and how quickly to act.

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  1. absent: No specific time given, only 'over the weekend' vaguely.
  2. absent: No time given, only 'over the weekend' vaguely.
  3. absent: No specific time or recency marker beyond vague 'over the weekend'.
  4. absent: No specific time or date given.
  5. absent: No specific time or recency marker is given beyond 'over the weekend'.
  6. absent: No specific time given, only 'over the weekend'.
  7. absent: No specific time given, only vague 'over the weekend'.
  8. absent: No clock time or date reference given.
  9. absent: No specific time given, only 'over the weekend'.
  10. absent: Only vague 'over the weekend', no specific time/date of message
  11. absent: No specific time given, only vague 'over the weekend'.
  12. absent: No specific time given, only vague 'over the weekend'.
  13. absent: No specific time or date of any threat given.
  14. absent: No specific time or date of any event given, just 'over the weekend' vaguely.
  15. absent: Only vague 'over the weekend', no specific time or date.
  16. absent: Only vague 'over the weekend', no specific time.
  17. absent: 'over the weekend' is vague, no specific time given.
  18. absent: No clock time or date of the message given, only vague 'over the weekend'.
  19. absent: No specific time given, only 'over the weekend'.
  20. absent: No specific time or date given, only 'over the weekend'.
  21. absent: No clock time or date of an event given, just 'over the weekend' vaguely.
  22. absent: No clock time or date given, only 'over the weekend'.
  23. absent: No time or date given for events, just 'over the weekend'.
  24. absent: No clock time or specific date given, only 'over the weekend'.
  25. absent: Only vague 'over the weekend', no specific time or date given.
• Impactabsent0/25

  Final assessment

  Unanimous: no consequence or severity is stated beyond the grief of the loss itself.

  What the hazard could do to the people in its path. Beyond naming the threat, a complete warning conveys its potential consequences or severity, such as that a tornado can level buildings or that a leak could be explosive, so recipients grasp how much danger they are in. Research on warning message content finds that a concrete impact statement helps people personalize their risk and act sooner.

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  1. absent: No stated consequence or severity beyond the loss itself.
  2. absent: No hazard consequence described.
  3. absent: No stated consequence/severity of a hazard, this is a bereavement notice.
  4. absent: No stated consequence beyond grief.
  5. absent: No consequence or severity of a hazard is conveyed.
  6. absent: No hazard consequence stated.
  7. absent: No stated consequence beyond the loss itself.
  8. absent: No hazard consequence stated.
  9. absent: No stated consequence beyond the loss itself.
  10. absent: No stated consequence or severity beyond grief
  11. absent: No hazard consequence stated.
  12. absent: No stated consequence to recipients.
  13. absent: No hazard consequence stated.
  14. absent: No stated consequence or severity beyond the sad tone.
  15. absent: No stated consequence or severity beyond the loss itself.
  16. absent: No stated consequence or severity beyond the loss itself.
  17. absent: No stated consequence to recipients; this is a condolence message.
  18. absent: No stated consequence to the community.
  19. absent: No stated consequence or severity beyond grief.
  20. absent: No hazard consequence stated, it's a grief message.
  21. absent: No stated consequence beyond the death itself.
  22. absent: No stated consequence or severity beyond the loss itself.
  23. absent: No hazard impact described; this is a bereavement notice.
  24. absent: No consequence/severity stated.
  25. absent: No stated consequence beyond the death itself.