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Standard deviation is the square root of the sum of the squares of the deviations of each item from the mean, i.e. the square root of the variance. In order to increase the standard deviation, therefore, you need to increase the average deviation from the mean.

There are many ways to do this. One is to move each item further away from the mean. For example, take the set [2, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 7, 9]. It has a mean of 5 and a standard deviation of 2.14. Multiply each item by 2.2 and subtract 5, giving the set [-1.3, 2.9, 2.9, 2.9, 5, 5, 9.2, 13.4], effectively moving each item 10% further away from the mean. This still has a mean of 5, but the standard deviation is 4.49.

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