You still don't seem to be understanding the difference between accuracy and precision. Exactness (accuracy) is irrelevant.
If the results are precise - i.e. if everybody gets the same result - they are objective.
Oh high and mighty one - I think you have the meanings of accuracy and precision turned around, or at least muddled.
From
Accuracy and precision - Wikipedia:
quote:
In the fields of science, engineering, industry and statistics, accuracy is the degree of conformity of a measured or calculated quantity to its actual (true) value. Accuracy is closely related to precision, also called reproducibility or repeatability, the degree to which further measurements or calculations will show the same or similar results.
The results of calculations or a measurement can be accurate but not precise; precise but not accurate; neither; or both. A result is called valid if it is both accurate and precise.
Let the truth be equal to 4.3587.
If you say the correct value is 4, then you are being accurate but not very precise.
If you say the correct value is 3.25792317, then you are being very precise but also are being very inaccurate.
One can reproduce very precise results that are also very inaccurate, if you have some sort of consistent error somewhere (say your ruler starts from 1 rather than from 0).
Please also see the "target analogy" at the above cited.
Now, what does this have to do with "How did animal get to isolated places after the flood?"? New topic time?
Ringo writes:
(This is all very basic stuff, but if you really don't understand it, we should take it somewhere where it's on topic.)
OK, we have an "off-topic" agreement.
Or something like that.
Moose
Professor, geology, Whatsamatta U
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