If $\bar{x}$ is the mean of $n$ observations $x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n$,then the mean of the absolute deviations of these observations from $\bar{x}$ is

  • A
    the variance of the data
  • B
    the mean proportion of the data
  • C
    the standard deviation of the data
  • D
    the mean deviation of the data

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