November 9, 2022

• real people

#2696: Precision vs Accuracy explain

[The comic shows a table with 3 rows and 3 columns. Each row and column has a label, and then nine statements are given for the 3x3 grid.]

{| class=“wikitable”

|-

| || Highaccuracy || Mediumaccuracy || Lowaccuracy

|-

| Highprecision

|Barack Obama was president for 70,128 hours||Barack Obama weighs as much as 17.082 cats||Barack Obama is 70.128 feet tall

|-

| Mediumprecision

|Most cats have 4 legs||Barack Obama is 6'1"||Barack Obama has 4 legs

|-

| Lowprecision

|Most cats have legs||Barack Obama has fewer legs than your cat||Barack Obama’s cat has hundreds of legs

|}