QUESTION 16 OF 30
What is the difference between accuracy and precision?
The interviewer is looking for how clearly you delineate the difference between these two terms. You can reply by either providing an example that illustrates that you understand the difference and can relate it to real-world situations or by simply describing the difference. You could follow up with saying why both are relevant and important in a laboratory setting.
"Precision is the agreement between a series of measurements obtained from multiple sampling of the same homogeneous sample under the prescribed conditions, while accuracy is the proximity of an individual measurement to the 'true' value as determine by the reference method/gold standard. Of course, both accuracy and precision are incredibly important in a lab setting."