how do you interpret the standard deviation
Best Answer: Standard deviation is a measure of how much the data is distributed around both sides of the mean. The wider the difference between the maximum and minimum values in a distribution, the bigger the standard deviation. In this case, the standard deviation is 32.3/73.9 or 43.7% of the mean. This is a large deviation, made even more significant by the fact that there is an absolute lower limit of zero.