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Lindam00
Sep 24, 2007, 09:36 AM
When working with standard deviation and variance does adding or subtracting 5 to the score affect either one of these?

smcdanie
Sep 24, 2007, 02:19 PM
when working with standard deviation and variance does adding or substracting 5 to the score affect either one of these?
To one score, or all the scores?

You may want to create a fake (but small) dataset of 3-4 items and try it out. Use the grades 75, 80, 82, 91. Then compute the SD or Var and then add 5 to one (or all) of the numbers to see if this changes.