No. Neither the standard deviation nor the variance can ever be negative.
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Square the standard deviation and you will have the variance.
Standard deviation = square root of variance.
If the variance is 846, then the standard deviation is 29.1, the square root of 846.
Standard deviation = square root of variance.
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