If life in these United States were a role playing game, the lowest difficulty setting would probably be a straight white male who is one standard deviation above mean height. (Unless you are a good enough athlete to get into the NBA being much taller than that is not so good) Tall people have never been denied the right to vote.

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The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is only about a half of a standard deviation from its mean over the same time frame.

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Nine World Series champions--the first nine clubs on our list--have registered less than a full standard deviation above the mean in the year they won.

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All are less than a full standard deviation above the mean.

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Other measures also suggest sentiment is running hot, including the spread between bullish and bearish sentiment (37.6 percentage points) and the standard deviation (bullish sentiment is more than one standard deviation above the historical mean).

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The Twins' 0.525 winning percentage fell within that standard range, translating to a score of less than one standard deviation above the 0.500 mean.

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In STAC (The Securities Technology Analysis Center) benchmarking, Solarflare and IBM achieved a top tested speed of 2.3 million messages per second with a mean latency of 14 microseconds and a standard deviation of latency at 2 microseconds using standard Ethernet and UDP protocols.

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