Editing 2696: Precision vs Accuracy
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|Barack Obama's cat has hundreds of legs | |Barack Obama's cat has hundreds of legs | ||
β | |This statement has low accuracy, as Barack Obama owns a four-legged dog named Sunny, but is not known to have owned a cat, much less one with more legs than normal | + | |This statement has low accuracy, as Barack Obama owns a four-legged dog named Sunny, but is not known to have owned a cat, much less one with more legs than normal (Cats, in general, tend not to have hundreds of legs{{Citation needed}}). It also has low precision, as "hundreds" could reasonably range from 200 to 900. (From a strict logician's point of view, this could however be considered a vacuously true statement.) |
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