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Because it is in same units as the original data. For example, if you have a sample of lengths, all in centimetres, the sample variance will be in units of centrimetres2 which might be more difficult to interpret but the sample standard deviation with be in units of centimetres, which would be relatively easy to intepret with reference to the data.

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