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The distance between what was planned and what actually happened to you.
means A departure or difference from an established course, standard, or expected value.
from From Latin deviare — de- 'away from' plus via 'way, road' — literally meaning to turn off the road. Latin writers used it for wandering travelers before it settled into English in the 1600s as a word for straying from a plan, path, or norm. The road never stopped being the image: to deviate is still, underneath, to leave the highway.
- statistics use
- measures how spread out data points are
- standard version
- square root of the variance, basically
- etymology
- from latin deviare, to turn off the road
- zero deviation
- means either perfection or a boring dataset