I just noticed that the APA now indicates that "s" should be used for the "Sample standard deviation (denominator SQRT(n - 1), while "SD" should be used for <population, denominator SQRT(n)> "Standard deviation. The addition of "s" to the table of statistical abbreviations and symbols is new to the sixth edition. Since it is the statistic rather than the parameter that we almost always report, I expect that "SD" will pretty much disappear from the future literature.
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