Provide an Appropriate Response $2,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,100$ What Drawback of the Standard Deviation Is Illustrated by This

question 63

Essay

Provide an appropriate response.
-In essence, the standard deviation indicates how far, on average, the observations are from
the mean. Do you think that for the data set below the standard deviation will give a good
indication of the typical deviation from the mean? $2,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,100$ What drawback of the standard deviation is illustrated by this example?

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