Accuracy & Precision

I know that there's a negative connotation attached to this word, errors, mistakes. We hate that. We always try our best to be as accurate as possible with all of our calculations in chemistry, but we need to realize that no matter what we do, there's always going to be a level of uncertainty attached with any calculation that we do. We're going to say that this level of uncertainty is called experimental error.
We're going to say when we investigate the quality of any experimental decision or calculation, we have to take into account to major categories. The first category deals with the reproducibility of our calculations.
Now ,what exactly does this mean? Well, this means that if I run an experiment and I do all the calculations and I get a number, if I do that experiment five more times, several more times, my answers each of the other times should be close to that first number. This is what we talk about reproducibility. All of our calculations, even though we do it several times, should give us around the same number. We're going to say that this is called precision. So our calculations can be precise, meaning all the results are going to be around the same number.
Common example for this is a dart board. We shoot out three darts and they all land in the basic same area. We're going to say our dart throwing will be very precise because every time we expect it to land around the same area.
Now, the second category that we're going to deal with, deals with how close we are to the actual value. So basically, when we look at this dart board, our actual value can be understood as the bull's eye. That's where we want to aim our dart. That's where we want to hit. If we hit the bull's eye, we're going to say that our throwing is very accurate. So we're going to say accuracy deals with how close we are to the measured value.
For example, we run an experiment. Our professor tells us we need to get an answer of 10. Let's say I do this experiment myself and I get an answer of 9.98. That's extremely close to 10, so I would say that my result is pretty precise. It's not perfectly precise and accurate, but it's pretty good. We're going to say that our 9.98 is actually accurate, pretty accurate. Close to 10.
So precision deals with the reproducibility of our calculations. Doing it more than once and our results being very close to one another. Accuracy means that I will be very close to my actual value. On the first example with the dart board, our three darts were very precise, but they weren't that accurate because we missed the bull's eye.