English, motherfucker, do you speak it? Наткнулся тут на любопытную статью, понял что не могу сходу объяснить разницу между accuracy и precision. По-русски и то, и то в первом приближении "точность", а остальное извлекается из контекста. Оказалось, вопрос актуальный, вот, что нам говорит Merriam Webster Dictionary: Many of us often use precision and accuracy as synonyms, but not scientists and engineers (а это как раз мы с вами!). For them, accuracy describes a particular measurement—that is, how close it is to the truth. But precision describes a measurement system—that is, how good it is at giving the same result every time it measures the same thing. This may be why even non-scientists now often speak of "precision instruments" for measuring, "precision landings" made by airplanes, "precision drilling" for natural gas, and so on. Definition of accuracy 1 : freedom from mistake or error : correctness checked the novel for historical accuracy 2 : conformity to truth or to a standar