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rossrants replied to your post: Oh, and before anyone mutters about precision
best way of describing the difference between accurate and precise is DARTS, 3 triple 20’s is precise, a few close to bulls-eye is accurate, all in the bulls-eye is precise and accurate, you could also use curling but non-curler’s would never get it
Unfortunately, precision in measurement and precision in language are different enough that the analogy doesn’t transfer well.
Accuracy in language means that the statements made convey the intended meaning.
Precision in language is harder to describe, but it more or less means that the statements made convey a specific and, more likely than not, unambiguous meaning.
Saying that someone who has MDD is depressed, while accurate, is imprecise because it does not convey that this person is more than just temporarily sad nor that their depression is chronic.
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Tom West, c.1966 | Image: Jessamyn West, at Flickr
When he wasn't designing incredibly precise clocks at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in the 1960s, Tom West could often be found travelling the world with one in his possession, on his way to accurately set the time at a foreign satellite observatory...
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