I currently have a standard result regarding variances and it looks like: $\frac{(2n-1)s^2}{\sigma^2} \overset{}{\sim} \chi^2_{2n-1}$ that is, it is approximately a chi-squared distribution with $2n-1$ degrees of freedom. Now, can I take the variance of both sides so that I get: $\frac{(2n-1)^2 var(s^2)}{\sigma^4} = 2(2n-1)$ (since the variance of chi-square is just the degrees of freedom times 2). Would this be a valid step? Thank you!