Editing False precision (section)

== Examples ==
False precision is the gist of numerous variations of a joke which can be summarized as follows: A tour guide at a museum tells visitors that a dinosaur skeleton is 100,000,005 years old, because he was told that it was 100 million years old when he started working there 5 years ago.

If a car's speedometer indicates a speed of 60&nbsp;mph, converting it to 96.56064&nbsp;km/h makes it seem like the measurement was very precise, when in fact it was not. Assuming the speedometer is accurate to 1&nbsp;mph, a more appropriate conversion is 97&nbsp;km/h.

Measures that rely on [[statistical sampling]], such as [[IQ tests]], are often reported with false precision.<ref name=lie>{{cite book|last1=Huff|first1=Darrell|title=How to Lie with Statistics|date=7 December 2010|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=9780393070873|pages=144|edition=2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5oSU5PepogEC&pg=PA55|access-date=22 October 2015}} Chapter 4. Much Ado about Practically Nothing</ref>