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6 Cards in this Set
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A measurement result is considered accurate if it is judged close to its true value
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ACCURATE
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Marking a scale on a measuring instrument eg. placing a thermometer in melting ice to see whether it reads zero and placing it in boiling water and see whether it reads 100 - in order to check if it has been calibrated correctly
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CALIBRATION
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Information, either quality (qualitative) or quantity (quantitative), that has been collected
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DATA
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The difference between a measure value and the true (accurate) value
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ERROR - MEASUREMENT ERROR
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These are values in a set of results that are random and do not fit with the normal pattern
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ERROR - ANOMALIES
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These cause readings to be spread about the true value, due to results varying in an unpredictable way from one measurement to the next
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ERROR - RANDOM ERROR
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