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deviate

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Another meaning of deviation comes from the field of statistics.

Deviation shows how 'spread out' the values are in a set of data, in other words - how far the values in a data set move away from the average of all the values.

A small deviation means that most of the values in a data set are relatively near to the average for that data set.

Which answers below best complete this sentence? Choose the 3 correct answers.

 

If most of the students in Town B got test scores that were close to the average score, this means that...

there are very small differences between their scores.

there is a small deviation in this data set.

most students got scores that were quite similar.

students got very different scores: Some got very high scores, some got low scores.