variance

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The actual discrepancy, Tinoco said, was 103 votes — a variance of 0.016%.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

While polling heading into the primary showed a lot of variance, the average converged on Paxton leading the race by about 4 points.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

Lieberman sees a significant variance in the quality of the management teams in the sector.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

Performance and reliability: Distributed GPU networks face inherent challenges with performance variance, latency and quality control.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 3, 2025

It had to be precisely straight, he said, for the whole sixty-two- foot length of the boat, not a centimeter of variance from one end to the other or the boat would never run true.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown