Understanding standard deviation and probability is crucial for interpreting scientific information, as it represents the likelihood of outcomes.

“the way to understand statistics statistics excuse me of course you have to understand the mode the medium Etc the mean the median and the mode but what's really important was is once you understand standard deviation you don't care if people know what one or two standard deviations from the mean is you want them to know what it represents in other words there's a verb in there well you also want to understand what probability means right a two percent chance that something is going to happen what does that mean because that thing is either going to happen or not going to happen there's a binary outcome”