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The art of being roughly right instead of exactly wrong.
means A lack of exactness — when something is approximate, fuzzy, or not quite nailed down to the precise detail.
from Built from the Latin prefix 'in-' (not) plus 'praecisio,' meaning 'a cutting off short' or 'abridgment' — from 'praecidere,' to cut off in front ('prae-' before, plus 'caedere,' to cut). So precision originally meant something sharply trimmed to its exact edge, and imprecision is simply that edge left ragged — the cut that was never made clean.
- vs inaccuracy
- imprecise can still be accurate, just vague
- science use
- measured by scatter, not distance from truth
- useful side
- poetry and diplomacy both run on it
- etymology
- from precis, cut short, sharply defined