crossthread
Titanium
- Joined
- Aug 5, 2004
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- Richmond,VA,USA
OT-Precision vs acccuracy
My wife and I went to buy a new thermometer for the porch yesterday and out of a box of 20 or so thermometers, none of them displayed the same temperature. She said that they could not be accurate because they all read differently. A very astute observation on her part. I told her that they could not be accurate because there was no precision. This started a lively discussion about accuracy versus precision. It ended with me trying to explain how calibration achieves accuracy only after precision is exhibited. Anybody else ever had this issue (not trying to explain something to my wife)?
My wife and I went to buy a new thermometer for the porch yesterday and out of a box of 20 or so thermometers, none of them displayed the same temperature. She said that they could not be accurate because they all read differently. A very astute observation on her part. I told her that they could not be accurate because there was no precision. This started a lively discussion about accuracy versus precision. It ended with me trying to explain how calibration achieves accuracy only after precision is exhibited. Anybody else ever had this issue (not trying to explain something to my wife)?
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