Terminology

Question 1

Define Precision

Answer 1

Refers to how closely two or more values agree with each other

Question 2

Define Accuracy

Answer 2

Results are determined to be this, if they are judged to be close to the ‘true’ value of the quantity begin measured

Question 3

Define Reliability

Answer 3

For primary data, this is the degree of consistency of a measure

Question 4

Define Repeatability

Answer 4

This refers to upon repetition of the experiment by the same experimenter and same equipment, the data is similar

Question 5

Define Reproducibility

Answer 5

This refers to the closeness of results between two independent experiments obtained from the same method, but with a different lab and different individual.

Question 6

Define Validity

Answer 6

An investigations ability to correctly measure what was meant to be measured