Inaccurate
adjective
Not correct, precise, or exact.
The reports about the incident were inaccurate.
Often appears as...
- inaccurate information
- inaccurate data
adjective
Not accurate in the details.
His summary of the book's plot was inaccurate.
Often appears as...
- inaccurate description
- inaccurate account
adjective
Not accurate in reporting or recording.
The data was inaccurate due to technical issues.
Often appears as...
- inaccurate replication
- inaccurate reporting
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Not correct, precise, or exact.
The reports about the incident were inaccurate.
Often appears as...
- inaccurate information
- inaccurate data
adjective
Not accurate in the details.
His summary of the book's plot was inaccurate.
Often appears as...
- inaccurate description
- inaccurate account
adjective
Not accurate in reporting or recording.
The data was inaccurate due to technical issues.
Often appears as...
- inaccurate replication
- inaccurate reporting
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Check Precision
Ensure numbers or details are double-checked when accuracy is crucial, like in statistics.
The inaccurate figures led to a budget deficit.
Pro Tip 2/3Misleading Information
Incorrect information can cause confusion or lead to wrong decisions.
Relying on inaccurate reports, they went the wrong way.
Pro Tip 3/3Verify Sources
Always check the reliability of your information source to avoid inaccuracy.
She quoted an inaccurate statistic from an unverified source.
Pro Tip 1/3Check Precision
Ensure numbers or details are double-checked when accuracy is crucial, like in statistics.
The inaccurate figures led to a budget deficit.
Pro Tip 2/3Misleading Information
Incorrect information can cause confusion or lead to wrong decisions.
Relying on inaccurate reports, they went the wrong way.
Pro Tip 3/3Verify Sources
Always check the reliability of your information source to avoid inaccuracy.
She quoted an inaccurate statistic from an unverified source.
Pro Tip 1/3Check Precision
Ensure numbers or details are double-checked when accuracy is crucial, like in statistics.
The inaccurate figures led to a budget deficit.
Pro Tip 2/3Misleading Information
Incorrect information can cause confusion or lead to wrong decisions.
Relying on inaccurate reports, they went the wrong way.
Pro Tip 3/3Verify Sources
Always check the reliability of your information source to avoid inaccuracy.
She quoted an inaccurate statistic from an unverified source.
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Mind Blown - Hangout to...
how many things how many times does this happen in your day-to-day life how many times you get information from the world and make inferences about the world and make estimations about the world that are completely inaccurate this happens all the time and I think that's that's fascinating yeah even in like the history of science or anything there are
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Why specializing early...
where next steps and goals may not be clear. Rules may change. You may or may not get feedback when you do something. It may be delayed, it may be inaccurate, and work next year may not look like work last year. So which one of these sounds like the world we're increasingly living in? In fact, our need to think in an adaptable manner
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Are all of your memories...
All of these fallibilities of memory can have real-world impacts. If police interrogations use leading questions with eye witnesses or suspects, suggestibility could result in incorrect identifications or unreliable confessions. Even in the absence of leading questions, misattribution can lead to inaccurate eyewitness testimony.
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Leslie T. Chang: The...
especially at a time when many of us already feel guilty about our impact on the world, but it's also inaccurate and disrespectful. We must be peculiarly self-obsessed to imagine that we have the power to drive tens of millions of people on the other side of the world to migrate and suffer
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Colonial Weaponry 101 PIPE...
two things so you'd be holding this in the stand and you just stick the stand in the ground and then you aim it like this these were pretty inaccurate in terms of yeah right it's tremely inaccurate rare for them to actually fire because they were so unreliable I
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What Happens to People's...
She called the clinic, but they said, "Don't worry about it, ultrasounds are frequently inaccurate. You're having two girls." But she gave birth to two boys. And they didn't look like her or her husband. They did genetic testing.
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Exploration+Discovery PIPE...
and it's grossly inaccurate, missing 30 percent of all cancers and thus is rarely ever used for screening of pancreatic cancer. So armed with eighth grade biology, I decided to set out to change the field of cancer diagnostics.
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Pros and cons of public...
Whoops! This happens all the time because public opinion polls are either inaccurate or misleading. So, why are they wrong? And why do we keep using them? First, let's start with an important sample.
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The Making of Walking...
dinosaurs looked a bit more like this at the time such pictures were an amazing achievement but the animals are still very inaccurate the brontosaurus should not have such a bendy neck the t-rex
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Laura Carstensen: Older...
is grossly inaccurate. Aging brings some rather remarkable improvements -- increased knowledge, expertise -- and emotional aspects of life improve.
Video examples
Mind Blown - Hangout to...
how many things how many times does this happen in your day-to-day life how many times you get information from the world and make inferences about the world and make estimations about the world that are completely inaccurate this happens all the time and I think that's that's fascinating yeah even in like the history of science or anything there are
Video examples
Why specializing early...
where next steps and goals may not be clear. Rules may change. You may or may not get feedback when you do something. It may be delayed, it may be inaccurate, and work next year may not look like work last year. So which one of these sounds like the world we're increasingly living in? In fact, our need to think in an adaptable manner
Video examples
Are all of your memories...
All of these fallibilities of memory can have real-world impacts. If police interrogations use leading questions with eye witnesses or suspects, suggestibility could result in incorrect identifications or unreliable confessions. Even in the absence of leading questions, misattribution can lead to inaccurate eyewitness testimony.
Video examples
Leslie T. Chang: The...
especially at a time when many of us already feel guilty about our impact on the world, but it's also inaccurate and disrespectful. We must be peculiarly self-obsessed to imagine that we have the power to drive tens of millions of people on the other side of the world to migrate and suffer
Video examples
Colonial Weaponry 101 PIPE...
two things so you'd be holding this in the stand and you just stick the stand in the ground and then you aim it like this these were pretty inaccurate in terms of yeah right it's tremely inaccurate rare for them to actually fire because they were so unreliable I
Video examples
What Happens to People's...
She called the clinic, but they said, "Don't worry about it, ultrasounds are frequently inaccurate. You're having two girls." But she gave birth to two boys. And they didn't look like her or her husband. They did genetic testing.
Video examples
Exploration+Discovery PIPE...
and it's grossly inaccurate, missing 30 percent of all cancers and thus is rarely ever used for screening of pancreatic cancer. So armed with eighth grade biology, I decided to set out to change the field of cancer diagnostics.
Video examples
Pros and cons of public...
Whoops! This happens all the time because public opinion polls are either inaccurate or misleading. So, why are they wrong? And why do we keep using them? First, let's start with an important sample.
Video examples
The Making of Walking...
dinosaurs looked a bit more like this at the time such pictures were an amazing achievement but the animals are still very inaccurate the brontosaurus should not have such a bendy neck the t-rex
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Laura Carstensen: Older...
is grossly inaccurate. Aging brings some rather remarkable improvements -- increased knowledge, expertise -- and emotional aspects of life improve.
Example 1 of 10
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Ben Domenech
American Writer
Careful authors and journalists cultivate relationships with a wide variety of sources so as to avoid bad information or being led down an inaccurate path. Gossip columnists don't particularly care if the path is inaccurate, so long as it gets attention and results in more fuel for the fire.
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Alexander Chee
American Writer
War and Peace' holds a strange place in literary history, participating in the crowning of realism as a substantial and serious literary mode in America, even as the novel also contributed to the argument that historical fiction could be by nature dangerous, illegitimate, and inaccurate.
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Howard Rheingold
American Critic
Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information online - surely there are ways to design web-browsers to help with this task and ways to teach young people how to use the powerful online tools available to them.
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Alicia Keys
American Musician
From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with.
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Chris Smith
American Politician
I believe evidence is overwhelming that chronic Lyme is a terrible, overwhelming disease, and we need to find ways to treat this. To say otherwise is an inaccurate and unscientific opinion.
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H. L. Mencken
American Writer
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
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Santiago Calatrava
Spanish Architect
Some have tried to use my work for politics, using inaccurate or out-of-context information that, repeated enough, becomes truth to some even though it is not.
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Nell Scovell
American Journalist
Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it.
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Agnes Martin
Canadian Artist
I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.
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Douglas Adams
English Writer
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
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Ben Domenech
American Writer
Careful authors and journalists cultivate relationships with a wide variety of sources so as to avoid bad information or being led down an inaccurate path. Gossip columnists don't particularly care if the path is inaccurate, so long as it gets attention and results in more fuel for the fire.
Quote examples
Alexander Chee
American Writer
War and Peace' holds a strange place in literary history, participating in the crowning of realism as a substantial and serious literary mode in America, even as the novel also contributed to the argument that historical fiction could be by nature dangerous, illegitimate, and inaccurate.
Quote examples
Howard Rheingold
American Critic
Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information online - surely there are ways to design web-browsers to help with this task and ways to teach young people how to use the powerful online tools available to them.
Quote examples
Alicia Keys
American Musician
From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with.
Quote examples
Chris Smith
American Politician
I believe evidence is overwhelming that chronic Lyme is a terrible, overwhelming disease, and we need to find ways to treat this. To say otherwise is an inaccurate and unscientific opinion.
Quote examples
H. L. Mencken
American Writer
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
Quote examples
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish Architect
Some have tried to use my work for politics, using inaccurate or out-of-context information that, repeated enough, becomes truth to some even though it is not.
Quote examples
Nell Scovell
American Journalist
Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it.
Quote examples
Agnes Martin
Canadian Artist
I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.
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Douglas Adams
English Writer
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
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