Why is accurate data important?

Answer 1

Accurate data is important because if someone tried to go off the outcome of your experiment with incorrect results then it could harshly effect their own experiment. It creates a domino effect. If one person goes off your false data then other people could go off theirs so on and so forth...

Answer 2

The level of importance and the level of accuracy needed necessarily depends on exactly what data you are talking about and what conclusions you are trying to reach.

If you are performing analysis on database and your data is not accurate, you run two main risks, one on a computational level, and the other with your conclusions.

The computational problem is that any calculation done with inaccurate data may have a roll-on effect, causing large errors in the final outcome. This leads to the other problem, that the conclusion reached, or the data output that you end up with may be very inaccurate, far more so than the inaccuracy of your original data.

Answer 3

High quality data is important because without good data, a computer knows nothing. The computer only knows what is put into it, so if something is bad going in it will come out bad.