In this episode of Defining Diabetes, Jenny Smith and I are going to define standard deviation.

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What is standard deviation? Overall, it's a calculated amount of time of variance or deviation for a group of numbers as a whole.

I mean if you really want like the true definition of standard deviation.

It's a mathematical term, right?

It's statistics.

It's a mathematical statistical term

so that we can actually measure, quantify,

essentially the amount of dispersion in a set of values.

And for an easy way to describe it with diabetes specifically and if you're looking at your

CGM report, thankfully clarity is wonderful.

It's got standard deviation right next to your overall average or your

average ghost. Standard deviation, the lower the value, the less variance you have

low to high numbers. So if you have a standard deviation of 20, you should have glucose values that look like these little gentle rolling hills up and down.

If you have a standard deviation of 73, you will have a lot of math

variance that looks like you are on a roller coaster at six flags.

Is this goal? Is standard deviation when it comes to diabetes attached to the

goal numbers? So here's what I've kind of learned and if I'm wrong

then I tricked myself and I'm wondering. If I set my my I don't know low goal at

70 and my high goal at 120, but I frequently go up to 150, that makes my standard

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