The statistic in which the differences from the mean are squared (to eliminate negative numbers)before they are added together and divided by their total number is called the

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The formula for the variance involves squaring the differences from the mean, thus eliminating negative values, and then taking the average of the squared differences. The other options, such as standard deviation and mean deviations, involve similar calculations but not the squaring of differences from the mean. The median involves finding the middle value in a set of data and is not related to calculating variability or dispersion.

The Statistic in Which the Differences from the Mean Are