Without making any calculations, which data set has the smallest standard deviation?

Standard deviation measures how spread out the values are from their mean. In D, every value is either 1 or 2, so all values are close together; the other sets include values spread across wider ranges. Therefore, D) 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2 has the smallest standard deviation.

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