This document provides an overview of variability and different techniques for measuring variability. It discusses how variability describes how spread out scores are in a distribution and serves two purposes: describing the distribution and measuring how well individual scores represent the entire distribution. The document then explains several measures of variability, including the range, interquartile range, standard deviation, and variance. It provides examples of calculating each measure and discusses when different measures would be appropriate depending on the type of variable and measurement scale.