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Originally Posted by fluffygrrl
Priceless, your article, it turns out. Thanks for linking.
I always thought standard deviation is somehow related to the statistical variance, for whatever reason. But I guess we might as well re-christen variance and call it the average. Altho I always thought it's a mean not an average. But I guess we could re-christen means to be averages too.
Bloody hell I haven't laughed this much in months.
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this page says - "Under the conditions where the Poisson distribution is applicable, the standard deviation may be approximated by the square root of the mean." Is it the word "approximately" you felt is missing? Or maybe you would prefer "mean" over "average" but I think most people would understand average better.