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coldgirl [10]
3 years ago
13

Why are both accuracy and reproducibility important in making a measurement?

Physics
1 answer:
Contact [7]3 years ago
4 0
Accuracy is how close you're measurement comes to an accepted or given value. I n many cases you do not know what the accepted value is, so you have nothing to compare your measurement with. The more often a measurement is taken with close precision, or reproducibility, the more likely you are to being close to your unknown accepted value.
There is a great short tutorial video covering accuracy and precision at Sciocity dot com
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