RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!
Standard Deviation: Sci-fi story. There's a statistically determined "average human being" and everyone has a rating on how far they are from that person. There are stereotypes about people who are varying degrees of distant, but no hard discrimination. Still, the "average person" has been heavily analyzed, as a tool for understanding those relatively close in. Then one day, someone is born who is a perfect 0 - and everyone knows *exactly* what to do with her. No one asks her what she wants in life. Why would they have to? those studies have been done. For a while, it's okay, but eventually, the fact that everyone is making all of her decisions for her gets stifling, and eventually she rebels against the system just so that she can have *some* choice that was not made for her - regularly struggling against the fact that, everywhere she goes, as soon as they hear her deviation number (and that's one of the first things people want to know) pretty much everyone has her instantly pigeonholed.
Standard Deviation: Sci-fi story. There's a statistically determined "average human being" and everyone has a rating on how far they are from that person. There are stereotypes about people who are varying degrees of distant, but no hard discrimination. Still, the "average person" has been heavily analyzed, as a tool for understanding those relatively close in. Then one day, someone is born who is a perfect 0 - and everyone knows *exactly* what to do with her. No one asks her what she wants in life. Why would they have to? those studies have been done. For a while, it's okay, but eventually, the fact that everyone is making all of her decisions for her gets stifling, and eventually she rebels against the system just so that she can have *some* choice that was not made for her - regularly struggling against the fact that, everywhere she goes, as soon as they hear her deviation number (and that's one of the first things people want to know) pretty much everyone has her instantly pigeonholed.