average deviation

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The margin was, says George Gallup, "a deviation greater than the average deviation of 2.3 percentage points for the 23 national elections covered by the Gallup poll."

From Time Magazine Archive

This figure indicates how closely the ten judges agree in their estimates of photograph A, a small average deviation indicating close agreement.

From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Hollingworth, Harry L.

It is also customary in careful work to state the average deviation of the observed values from the mean.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

Here the mean is 4.71, and the average deviation from the mean, taken without regard to algebraic sign, is .05.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

In every employment this determines his Personal Equation, or average deviation from the normal.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth