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Mean = 2. Variance = 1.
Variance is the squared deviation from the mean. (X bar - X data)^2
The mean, by itself, does not provide sufficient information to make any assessment of the sample variance.
Formally, the standard deviation is the square root of the variance. The variance is the mean of the squares of the difference between each observation and their mean value. An easier to remember form for variance is: the mean of the squares minus the square of the mean.
The variance is always positive. The variance is not directly related to the sign (nor magnitude) of the mean.