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Sample Variance and Bessel's Correction

Finding the missing Bessel's correction in a sample-variance function.

Codepython
def sample_variance(data):
    m = sum(data) / len(data)
    return sum((x - m) ** 2 for x in data) / len(data)

print(sample_variance([4, 8, 12]))

What is the bug in this sample-variance function?