Hannah Waddingham

Sondheim informs us, more than any other composer, about the joys, passion and pain of being a woman living in various social conditions through the ages with frightening accuracy. Playing a variety of his characters has always made me feel like I'm having a free therapy session through his words and music!

English Actress

John Berger

A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see. Following up its logic in order to check its accuracy, you find confirmation or denial in the object itself or in your memory of it.

English Artist

Yngwie Malmsteen

What I've done from the very beginning is play everything with extreme accuracy. I never said to myself, 'Okay, if I put my fingers this way, it's gonna result in this.' I've never taken a lesson. My way of playing the guitar was a fresh approach to the instrument.

Swedish Musician

Jef I. Richards

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.

American Educator

Sidney Sheldon

I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.

American Novelist

J. M. G. Le Clezio

If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write - and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy - I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war.

French Writer

Hannah Fry

I'm a mathematician. I can trade in facts about false positives and absolute truths about accuracy and statistics with complete confidence.

English Mathematician

Radamel Falcao

Everyone is free to express their opinions, but I think that journalists should do it with more responsibility. They lack accuracy.

Colombian Athlete

Ryan Holiday

The news as entertainment is the real danger, because the truth or accuracy of what it is reporting becomes irrelevant.

American Author

Ari Melber

House of Cards' is aiming for truth, not accuracy.

American Journalist

Different fields demand various degrees of accuracy. For instance, math requires high precision.

Context Matters

Accuracy isn't always about numbers; it can refer to the truthfulness of a statement or representation.

Figurative Use

In sports, accuracy is a critical skill that can impact the outcome of a game.

Skill Importance

Consistent practice is key to developing and maintaining accuracy in sports.

Practice Makes Perfect

Accuracy in science is crucial for experiments to be valid and results to be trusted.

Critical for Science

Scientists use standardized methods to ensure accuracy across different studies and experiments.

Measurement Standards

In translation, accuracy means staying true to the original text's meaning and tone.

True to Original

Consider cultural contexts to maintain accuracy in translation, as some phrases don't translate directly.

Cultural Nuances

 You have not been a lot of help. So let's just say the accuracy in this room was not very high. This is a big difference in cognitive ability across languages, right? Where one group -- very distinguished group like you guys -- doesn't know which way is which, but in another group, I could ask a five-year-old and they would know.

How language shapes the...

 are designed with that entire group in mind. So it's easy to see why in recent years people have begun to raise questions about whether the symbol is really appropriate for what it's meant to do. And it's not just about accuracy. It's common for people to become indignant, sometimes abusive,

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 with geolocation so accurate that you could pinpoint the wrinkles in the palm of your hand. But you and I and other innovators, we can see the potential in this next leap in accuracy. Imagine, for example, an augmented reality app that overlays a virtual world to millimeter-level precision

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 and found that it predicted pregnancy with a respectable 70% accuracy, though it couldn't reliably tell the sex of the baby. Scientists hypothesized that the test worked because pregnant women's urine contains more estrogen, which can promote seed growth.

How do pregnancy tests...

 We may think our modern technology and advanced data analysis techniques might allow us to predict the future with much more accuracy than our 19th century counterpart, and rightly so. However, it's also true that our technological progress

How science fiction can...

 When a tornado is forming or a hurricane is brewing, the accuracy of his models can be a matter of life and death. But because there are so many variables in the atmosphere, no model spits out the right prediction every time.

The Future of Weather...

 but our problems are much more complex than that. The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have, and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all. There's a postscript

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 why data is so important and worth the effort and then by building the organization's the institution's the communities that can build trust that can ensure accuracy and that can hold the data

Lack of data is an issue...

 showing that just an individual, by themselves, swabbing up to the tip of their nose, the accuracy of that test is essentially the same as having a health care worker do it. That helps a lot.

How we must respond to...

 that he works with now aids astonishing accuracy demonstrates not just a strong grasp of syntax and vocabulary but a razor-sharp long-term memory

Accuracy

The quality of being correct or precise.

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The ability to perform a task with reliable results.

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The quality of being true or without error.

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The level of correctness in a translation.

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