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I have a bone to pick with individuals who teach statistics.
A standard deviation is a measure of the average distance between data points and their mean. Thus, if one’s dataset contained the numbers 2, 4, 6, and 8, the mean would be 20/4 = 5 (the sum divided by the number of data points). A [...]
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