probability variance formula intuition – math.stackexchange.com

Here is the formula for the variance : $\sigma^2=\dfrac{\sum(X-\mu)^2}{N}$. My question is why do we SQUARE the difference between the mean and the variable, why don't we use absolute value ...The ...

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