Precision
Leaving Cert Chemistry · Nature of Science
Higher Level
How close a set of repeated measurements of the same quantity are to one another. Results can be precise and still be wrong, because a systematic error shifts every reading in the same direction.
Ordinary Level
How close repeated measurements are to each other. Precise readings are grouped closely together.
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