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Accuracy and precision
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"Accuracy indicates proximity of measurement results to the true value, precision to the repeatability or reproducibility of the measurement."
I remember this being mentioned at the start of my Grade 10 Science class. For example, if you shot at a target and hit in a cluster around the outer ring, it would still be considered "accurate", just not precise. Precision would be proximity to the center of the target.
haha! We had this discussion about a year agowith my friends, about if the accuracy of the mesurement of the precision of the mesuremant was the most important. Personnaly I think the accuracy is what really matters but again this is debatable because science is made on reproductible result.