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That you can think of an average as the center of mass of a dataset. Similarly, that you can think of a standard deviation as the center of mass of the distances between each point and the average.
Violin plots make this easy to visualize
Violin plots are bad and you should feel bad. Summary of why: Link
I'm looking forward to feeling bad when I listen to this on my next commute because there's no way I'm watching a 42 minute video on violin plots for my Saturday night ๐