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jy14898
6 months ago
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All clocks are 30 seconds late
By this logic, a broken 24 hour clock stuck at mid day has 0 error.
Straw
6 months ago
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The average of its errors is 0- ie it is not biased. Ofc, the average absolute error, which in English one could very reasonably refer to as "average error" is much greater than 0.
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