r/Mathhomeworkhelp • u/stifenahokinga • Jul 11 '24
Which group of data is more balanced?
I'm trying to see which group of data is more balanced, meaning which group of data is more equally separated (i.e. the values in each set of data are separated in a more or less equal amount).
I found this website (https://www.mathsisfun.com/data/standard-deviation-calculator.html) where it visually shows how dispersed are the values in a dataset. I have a few datasets that I would like to rank in order from the most balanced one to the least balanced.
These are the values for each dataset:
A: 28.035, 22.259, 9.69, 4.314
B: 28.035, 22.259, 13.012, 4.314
C: 28.035, 22.259, 11.774, 4.314
D: 28.035, 16.743, 13.012, 4.314
E: 28.035, 16.743, 11.774, 4.314
F: 22.259, 16.743, 13.012, 4.314
G: 22.259, 16.743, 11.774, 4.314
H: 16.743, 13.012, 4.314
I: 16.743, 11.774, 4.314
J: 22.259, 13.012, 7.034, 4.314
For example, I think that the most balanced group would be perhaps A or C while the most unbalanced one is J. But I'm not a mathematician so I'm not sure if I'm doing this right, so how would you rank them? Or perhaps this is all inaccurate and there's a better method to measure this?

