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What Is Standard Deviation?
standard deviation is a statistical tool that helps to understand two things, how unusual a single event is compared to the average. To get it, oh, gues, i'll break it down into the unusual thing and the variability thing. The best way to explain this is to imagine you're slowly pouring sand out of a bucket,. It'll form a little pile that is tallest directly below the bucket and slopes down as you move further away from the spout. And standard deviations are a measure of how far away something is from the mean.
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