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Message: [QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5288787, member: 173"] If you measure the caliper of a sheet of paper that way repeatedly you can check what the actual caliper is from the manufacturer and calculate your accuracy (% error). What’s more interesting is how to assess accuracy of polling data or TV ratings, where there isn’t a known standard you’re measuring against. Because the accuracy is an unknown to the average consumer, we tend to use confirmation bias instead - we believe the info we want to, ignore the info that goes against our personal narrative. It’s probably a leading cause of how divisive our society is becoming - there’s too much data and information to effectively process, so we confirmation bias ourselves into two mutually exclusive camps. There’s a reasonable chance that “low information” people have the least biased, most accurate worldview as a result. Maybe turning into an idiocracy won’t be such a bad thing.., [/QUOTE]