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What Does the Variance Formula Mean? (2)
- One of the definitions of the mean was that it always made the sum of the scores minus the mean equal to 0
- Thus, the average of the deviates must be 0 since the sum of the deviates must equal 0
- To avoid this problem, statisticians square the deviate score prior to averaging them
- Doing this makes all the squared scores positive