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Because the two distributions displayed below have different ranges, they have the different standard deviations.

true or false

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false, the range is just determined by minising the lowest from the highest, but the variables can still get you the same mean, which can lead to the same standard deviation
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The answer is false.

Different ranges do not always imply difference in SD. In fact, sometimes distributions can have similar descriptive statistics with different ranges.

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