[GoLightly]

A statement can be precise without being accurate, but it cannot truly be accurate without being precise.

You mean there's nothing like a slide fit with statements? If I tell you someone is an thin as a rail, it could be an accurate statement, yet it lacks precision.

[Mad Dawg]

What's a "slide fit"? Is that like when a cabinet maker gets out the 5 lb easing hammer and just, uh, taps that part in there a little?

But yeah, I think that's right by my questionable lights.

[Zero Sum]

If I tell you someone is an thin as a rail, it could be an accurate statement, yet it lacks precision.

That's a simile: It's meant to express something comparatively, but it's not literally true. Although I'm sure most people would understand what you meant if you said that. ;)