In computing the variance, if we merely added up all the deviations from the mean without first squaring them, the average deviation from the mean would be
A) 1.0, no matter how variable the scores were.
B) 1.0, if the scores had a large variance.
C) 0.0, if the scores had a small variance.
D) 0.0, no matter how variable the scores were.
Answer: D
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