You flip a coin 8 times and record the results using 0 for heads and 1 for tails. You find the variance. Is investigating this sample variance the same as investigating the sampling distribution of the variance?

No, Sampling Variance is different from Variance of Sampling Distribution.

Step-by-step explanation:

Sampling Distribution of Variance is a variance of the probability distribution of all possible samples. and,

Sample Variance is a variance of only the given samples which is very small compared to the Sampling distribution of variance.

Thus, investigating 8 samples of a coin is different from investigating the sampling distribution of variance.

Answer: No, the sampling distribution of the variance is the distribution of the means from all samples, not just one.