
William W. answered 08/28/21
Experienced Tutor and Retired Engineer
What do you think?
If you do an experiment and somehow, you are able to do everything perfectly (which is not going to be possible), I suppose the lab results will give the true value. Or possible, on an EXREMELY lucky day, all the errors seem to counteract each other so that you just happen, by shear luck, to get the true value.
But in virtually every case, there will be errors in what you do, or losses that cannot be compensated for, that will result in lab results that do not match the true value.