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Solution: Evaluate std.dev

Solution: Evaluate std.dev

(upbeat music) - Welcome back. What did you see when you studied the standard deviation data? Did you discover any insights about how the organization practices cybersecurity? My challenge had two questions for you. What did you see when you studied the standard deviation data? Did you discover any insights about how the organization practices cybersecurity? My challenge had two questions for you. Let's unpack each one as I saw it. First, what does this data tell you about how this organization does risk management? We know this area has a high standard deviation compared to the rest of the data because the overall data set has a standard deviation of 1.08, and the standard deviation of these questions ranged from 1.4 up to 1.86. A high standard deviation indicates a lot of variability among the responses, and this means some respondents said their organization was very good at doing risk assessment while others…

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