The problem with measuring dispersion by merely averaging all the deviations between each score and the overall mean is that
a. positive and negative deviations will balance out.
b. squared values make intuitive interpretation difficult.
c. dividing by (N-1) gives a biased statistic.
d. There are no problems with measuring dispersion this way.
A
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