MathProbabilityRandom variables and their properties

The variance of a continuous uniform distribution

Reasons to be squared

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What are the main reasons to calculate the squared distance from the mean rather than the simple distance for the variance?

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Squaring emphasizes the impact of outliers, or extreme values

To get a standard deviation formula

Without squaring, positive differences could cancel out negative differences.

There are no particular reasons.

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