standard deviation

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Yet studies describe only “small effects, ranging from about plus or minus one-tenth of a standard deviation — or three or four points” on one of the federal National Assessment of Educational Progress tests.

From Washington Post

"The measurement is intriguing, but its statistical significance of 4.2 standard deviations has not reached the gold standard in particle physics data of 5," Loeb told Salon via email.

From Salon

If this value goes beyond five standard deviations from the theory—the gold standard for discovery in particle physics—it would be convincing evidence of new physics beyond the Standard Model.

From Scientific American

The standard deviation measures how much an individual county’s vote typically deviated from the national average; this measure was a bit lower in 2020 after rising steadily from 2000 to 2016.

From New York Times

Although it was hard, it paid off: the standard deviation of my blood sugar levels began to decrease and I felt healthier and happier.

From Nature