Question

If someone were monitoring your vital signs (like your heart rate, oxygen content in your blood, blood pressure, etc.) every hour in a hospital, you would
likely want them to be both accurate and precise in their measurements. Make an argument for why what you think is more important, accuracy or
precision?

Answer 1

Answer:

Accuracy

Explanation:

I think accuracy is more important. When it comes to vital organs in the body, the exactness of getting the measurement is paramount. Accuracy deals with getting very close, almost exact you may say, to a known standard. Precision on the other hand, deals with how easy a measurement can be retaken, reproduced or remade, irrespective of how far or close they are from the accepted norm.

From this, we can agree that precision neglects the most important factor, closeness or say, exactness. Precision isn't bothered by it. And while that can be excused in a few instances, it certainly can not be permitted when it comes to life, or organs of the body