[Informatics] Factors that harm accuracy. (Warning - bad cow jokes.)

[Paragreen, Chris J]

At the risk of muddying things (rain + paddocks = mud ?!) I think this refers to timeliness, rather than accuracy per se ….

- going out of date - the state of the real world has changed (a few new cows were put into the paddock) but the data has not been updated to reflect that change.
Or the number of cows had been copied from one database to a mirrored site, but the mirror has not been synchronised recently with the master copy so the mirror is no longer representative of the true current size of the herd of cows*.

Regards,

Chris

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