So now the question is how do I know if you really understand this stuff? It is a truism in teaching that if a student can successfully apply a concept to their own lives that they must understand it at least a little. So here goes....
You must identify some way in which you, as a member of a group, are more than 1 standard deviation from the mean of the group and provide actually data in support of your answer.
1) To start with this will involve you spending some time thinking about the various groups of which you are a member and what characteristics you have within that group which are not so "normal". As you do this thinking be aware that because you have to find data to support your answer it would be good to look for the availability of the data before you spend too much time on this.
2) Present the data (as a histogram) which describes the distribution of the characteristic you selected and cite your source(s). Explain clearly what the data means and describes so that another student would understand.
3) Determine the standard deviation of the distribution yourself from the data using the tools which we developed in lab. If the formal standard deviation of the data has already been determined you may report that number but you must personally determine it as well. Describe clearly the process by which you arrived at your determination of the standard deviation.
4) Since we are in the U.S. it would seem most likely that your data represents characteristics of some population of residents of the U.S. If the same data were collected from a large sample of residents of Hawaii would you expect that you are personally closer or further away from the mean than 1 standard deviation? Explain your reasoning clearly and completely based on some reasonable characterization of the people of Hawaii. I DON'T expect you to actually find this data.