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What does it mean to be a standard deviation away from the mean?

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Mean can also be thought of as average.

Standard deviation is a bit more difficult to describe. It is a statistic that can help measure how spread out the data gets.

Depending on the distribution, data within 1 standard deviation of the mean can be considered fairly common and expected. Essentially it tells you that data is not exceptionally high or exceptionally low.

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