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Variance is basically the raw material of statistics. If you don't have variance (differences in scores) you don't have much to work with or for that matter you don't have much to talk or think about. Consider a test where everyone gets the same score. What does that tell you? You might have some measurement problem, wherein the test is so easy everyone aces it. Still it might be so hard that everyone gets a zero. Now consider two tests. On each everyone gets the same score. That is on test one everyone gets a 15 and on the second test everyone gets a 10. That isn't telling you much is it? Now these are extreme cases, but in general, more variance is better and less variance isn't so good.

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