Question

William Tell had only one attempt to shoot an apple from the top of his son's head with his bow and arrow. If you were Wiliam Tell and you loved your son, would you rather be accurate or precise?

Answer 1

You would want to be accurate. Precise means repeatable, you would hit the same spot many times, but not necessarily the apple. If you are accurate, you would hit the apple, but might not necessarily hit the same spot multiple times.

Answer 2

Answer: accurate

Explanation:

1) Precision is a measure of dispersion of the values. Precision is how close or far are the values from each other.

If several shots are far of the target but are yet close from each other precision is high, but you are not hitting the aim. This is not what you want.

Being highly precise but poorly accurate means that you shot several times in the same wrong spot.

2) Accuracy measures how close to the aim the results are. This is, how close to hit the apple on the son's head.

3) Since you do not want the shot to miss the target (the apple) you want to have accuracy. Else, you migh shot the son's head instead the apple.