You have exhibited decent accuracy, but low precision. You throw another 5 darts. This time, the darts are very close together, but several inches from the bull-eye. Now you have high precision, but low accuracy. The last 5 darts are all in the bulls-eye. You have now achieve high precision and high accuracy. read more
You can think of accuracy and precision in terms of a basketball player. If the player always makes a basket, even though he strikes different portions of the rim, he has a high degree of accuracy. If he doesn't make many baskets, but always strikes the same portion of the rim, he has a high degree of precision. read more