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For a given data set, standard deviation measures how spread out the numbers are from an average value. This measurement of ...

In response to my article, Is the Stock Market Too Concentrated?, which relied upon standard-deviation calculations to assess investment risk, a reader wrote: “My problem [with your argument] is ...