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To: Zero Sum

I’m still looking for the useful reference here.

Last night I watched a rerun of an episode of “Psych”. Two characters were at a shooting range. The first character shot a bunch of rounds at a target. She was going to get out a new target for the other character, but he chose to use the same target she’d used. He quickly shot the same number of rounds that she’d used. Upon inspection, he’d made each of the holes that she’d made into a “doubled” hole.

Her shots determined the precision of the shooting session. It could be said that her shots defined a range. If both shooters had been “perfect”, there would be exactly one hole in the target & it would be the size that the largest bullet had made.

The accuracy of his shooting was determined by the distance between the centers of each of the holes that he’d “duplicated” with all of his shots.

How did her precision (or lack of precision) affect his accuracy?


138 posted on 01/06/2008 6:53:12 PM PST by GoLightly
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To: GoLightly
If both shooters had been “perfect”, there would be exactly one hole in the target & it would be the size that the largest bullet had made.

No, in this example the second shooter was "perfect", becuase he hit what he was aiming for every single time.

How did her precision (or lack of precision) affect his accuracy?

It didn't. It affected HER accuracy.

143 posted on 01/06/2008 7:37:02 PM PST by Zero Sum (Liberalism: The damage ends up being a thousand times the benefit! (apologies to Rabbi Benny Lau))
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