The key to objective, verifiable evidence (OVE) is that someone else is able to objectively verify a report, a claim, etc.
Example
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Situation
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Evidence
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Sputnik-I
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On October 4th, 1957, Radio Moscow announced that the Soviet Union had launched "Sputnik-I," the world's first artificial satellite.
At that time, the United States had only a beginning space program, but not yet capable of launching a satellite into space.
Consequently, many Americans (including some members of press) were quick to denounced the Russian announcement, as just a Communist propaganda trick.
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The Radio Moscow report gave a specific time it would be over New York City and said it was orbiting the earth once every 96.2 minutes. They said it was transmitting a radio signal on 20.005 MHz, close to the popular 15-meter Amateur Radio band.
Indeed, amateur radio operators and others in and around New York City were able to pick up the weak-but-solid "Beep, Beep, Beep" signal at the time and frequency indicated.
By calculating the orbital speed, and allowing for the rotation of the earth, radio operators is other cities were also able to listen and hear the signal fade in and fade out right on the predicted schedule.
Clearly, such a radio signal could not be a fake.
This, coupled with the fact that the booster rocket was visible with simple binoculars, verified that it was real.
- That is OVE -
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Income Equality
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The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
The great transfer of wealth is from the working poor and middle class to the wealthy elite.
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Endless economic charts
for the the last 50-some
years, show the transfer
of wealth that has taken
place
... from the backs of the
working poor and middle
class
... to the wealthy elite
of America.
CEOs received 195 times the
pay of the average American
worker in 1993.
In 2012, CEOs pay was
354 times the pay of the
average worker.
"[Only] 7% of the 2009-2012
economic recovery went to the
99% of Americans, while 37%
went to the [most wealthy] 0.1%."
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Pop-Quiz
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The high school instructor announced a surprise "pop quiz" just before the class period ended.
Only 10 questions, all true or false, piece of cake.
Now this instructor was very methodical. As he went across the front of the room, he carefully counted out the exact number of quiz sheets for each row, saying, "Pass them back."
He gave the class five minutes, at the end of which, he said, "Pass your papers forward."
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As he was collecting the quiz results, he went on to say, "I don't know if you noticed, but rows 1, 3, and 5 got one quiz, and rows 2, and 4 got a similar but different one."
He only had to note the red faces to know who had copied from their neighbor. And, he had the quiz papers to verify it.
Rather elegant, wouldn't you say!
Objective, verifiable evidence.
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