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Mathematics

Standard Deviation as a Measure of Spread

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In a normal distribution, about 68% of all values lie within one standard deviation of the mean, and about 95% within two.

Why this is interesting

You already know how to find the average of a set of numbers, but how do you measure whether the numbers are all close to that average or scattered far and wide?