A quick way to see how much a set of datapoints deviates from their own average, where the points that lie farthest away, have the most weight, because the differences are squared.
Standard Deviation: "The sum of the differences from the average squared"
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a sexual fetish that was previously considered perverse but is now commonplace
Bondage and foot fetishes are standard deviations
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The point in time when although things are working fine a complete system restart has occured
Them: How'd things go last night during registration?

Me: Well as you can see by this graph, thigs were working but here you see the standard gossard deviation, then it was busy again.

Them: What an idiot!
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