Effectiveness vs Accuracy - What's the difference?
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The property of being effective, of achieving results.
The capacity or potential for achieving results.
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The degree to which something achieves results.
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The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy? ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.
As nouns the difference between effectiveness and accuracy
is that effectiveness is the property of being effective, of achieving results while accuracy is the state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness.effectiveness
English
(wikipedia effectiveness)Noun
(-)- The effectiveness of the drug was well established.
- He questioned the effectiveness of the treatment.
- United were having more possession but a sign of the effectiveness of Liverpool's defence was that it took the visitors 76 minutes to force Mignolet into serious action, when he dived to punch away a shot from substitute Nani.