The new "sufficient" standard will mean that the risk of someone becoming ill with an ear infection or stomach upset must not exceed 8%.
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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 yellow and red lines represent one and two standard deviations from the mean ratio, respectively.
Playing in the tougher National League West, the Reds' 0.611 winning percentage was 2.86 standard deviations above the mean.
The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is only about a half of a standard deviation from its mean over the same time frame.
The company that carried out the analysis flagged all classrooms that showed a number of wrong-to-right erasures exceeding three standard deviations from the mean.
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.
The 2.20 score indicates more than two standard deviations above the mean, meaning the Niners were more than twice as good as a typical NFL team that year.
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Does this mean that standard servers will just disappear overnight?
Of course, even if Super League is more exciting than the NRL, it does not automatically mean the standard is higher or that England have a team capable of competing with the Kanagroos.
Bullish sentiment is more than two standard deviations from its historical mean, making it a statistical outlier.
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).
The larger the number of standard deviations of the spread from the mean, the higher the expected stock return.
The similarities between this quasi-dollar standard and the original Bretton Woods system mean that many of today's problems have historical parallels.
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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.
The idea here is to communicate that ultimate goal of economic production is to raise folks standard of living, by which we mean their level of consumption.
No, contrary to standard US usage supply side reforms do not mean simply lowering marginal tax rates.
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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Ms. PURNELL: When I say they, I mean, blacks that are already at that standard.
But AQA said this would mean awarding C grades for work below the standard.
The union said converting to an academy would mean a "backwards step" for the standard of education.
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All in all, Brook has succeeded in producing a fresh version of Hamlet that will be the standard by which all future productions are judged - no mean achievement for the enfant terrible of British theatre.
Stable Money, ideally, means a gold standard system. (For smaller countries, it can mean a link to a reliable international currency.) Although it is possible to devalue the debt away, unfortunately you also devalue your economy away at the same time.
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It does mean they shouldn't be held to a higher standard than men.
But just because judges now have a new standard by which to assess the claims of plaintiffs doesn't mean they will reach a different decision.
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They believe that tight regulations, including those introduced in response to the BSE crisis, mean their part of the food industry now sets the standard for others to follow.
So I mean, I think that you have to -- the standard has to apply here.
In the standard bell-curve, you will recall, mode, median and mean are all the same.
Of course, Orchid isn't the only company hunting SNPs, and even its new deal with the SNP consortium doesn't mean that Orchid's way of finding them will become the standard.
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