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It is not enough to know only the mean or some other measure of the central tendency: it is useful to know the dispersion. If, in a test, the average score is 50 and you score 52 you have clearly scored better than average but how much better? If the scores range from 0 to 100, you are pretty close to average whereas if they range from 48 to 52 you are amongst the top of the class!

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