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What does standard deviation tell us?

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How the data is spread around the mean.

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What does it mean to have a low standard deviation?

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Most of the data is situated close to the mean and so the data is more reliable than data with a high standard deviation.

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What does the standard error tell us?

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Measures the accuracy with which a sample represents a population. It quantifies how precisely you know the true mean of the population.

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