{"id":4732,"date":"2026-11-05T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4732"},"modified":"2026-10-24T06:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T11:53:56","slug":"accuracy-and-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2026\/11\/accuracy-and-precision\/","title":{"rendered":"Accuracy and Precision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This is a simple concept. We often confuse the terms.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Precision has to due with the resolution of a statement. Are we talking years, months, day, or seconds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a precise estimate: we will finish the project at 2:34PM EST Tuesday July 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accuracy has to due with the correctness of a statement. Sometimes the simplest examples sound silly, but they are accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is an accurate estimate: we will finish some time after now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People often confuse the two concepts and use the words incorrectly. Let&#8217;s think a little more before we speak and write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips This is a simple concept. We often confuse the terms. Precision has to due with the resolution of a statement. Are we talking years, months, day, or seconds? Here is a precise estimate: we will finish the project at 2:34PM EST Tuesday July 23. Accuracy has to due with the correctness of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,32,484,378,416,66,5],"tags":[173,154,485,379,417,186,128],"class_list":["post-4732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choose","category-communication","category-meaning","category-measure","category-vocabulary","category-word","category-writing","tag-choose","tag-communication","tag-meaning","tag-measure","tag-vocabulary","tag-word","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4733,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions\/4733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}