"Accuracy is important."

Question

What would be the best way to translate this for students who are beginning a test? Gracias!

Answer 1

Possible sentences:

Es importante que den respuestas exactas

La precisión de sus respuestas es muy importante

Sean específicos cuando contestan

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That's what our teacher used to tell us at school. Hope it helps!

Answer 2

Precisión es importante

In science, accuracy and precision are not synonyms. Look at the link below. Dismiss all of the science jargon and just look at the pictures (the bullseye). Something can be precise, but not accurate or accurate and yet, not precise.

I don't wish to seem pedantic, but I used to do land surveying and this was a cardinal tenet, that was carved into our brains. If our instruments were out of calibration, we could take a reading 10 times and they might be highly precise (very close to each other), but totally inaccurate due to a device error built into each reading.

Accuracy versus Precision

Sorry, if this is picayune, but I was having flashbacks.

It would appear from the other replies that Spanish speakers are also insentitive to the distinction. - samdie, Feb 8, 2010

Answer 3

I'm assuming "Precisión es imporante," or "Exactitud es importante."

Answer 4

I'd say:

Precisión es importante