Instructions:

Please respond to a minimum of two peers. Include in your response:

· Using the height of your classmate calculate the z-score using the mean and standard deviation for the other gender. That is, if they calculated z for a male, calculate for a female. Would their height be unusual for a different gender?

· What are some other ways the concept of normality might be used in their field?

· What are some challenges for very tall and short people that were not mentioned? What about their social life? Do females always want to date someone taller? Do men want to date someone shorter?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Peer post 1

My height is 69.685 inches or 5’8 feet.

the z- score is +0.385

The normal range is between 58.4 inches and 69.6 inches.

My height is within the range as it something that I did not expect. I am one of the shortest in the class and among the tallest in the school. Even when I go for my games and gym training, I find myself tall than the others, according to the statistics that are given been in the normal range. I consider my height usual because the standard deviation is two, either positively or negatively, and I am not almost to the value.

Being tall has always had challenges that I will keep going through my lifetime. I have been in places where only short and average people are there, and with my tallness, I find myself walking into spider webs, and in the efforts of getting the web from my face, I look at someone crazy. I always have a challenge of meeting somebody tall like me, and there is always a silence between us that makes me uncomfortable. (Anonymaous, 2014) It hurts when I am walking on a path, and from afar, I spot a person who seems tall, and when we come closer, he or she is short. The other problem is when I go to the shopping mall to improve my wardrobe; I always find the pants to fit me.

The concept of normality has always made me curious whenever I hear being talked about. The concept denotes no infection, malformation, disease, therapeutic manipulations, or absence of experimental in a human body. (Chadwick 2017) The level of blood sugar in an individual is normal when it is less than 7.8 mmol/L or 140mg/dL. When the reading is more than 11.1 mmol/L or 200 mg/dL after a hundred and 20 minutes, the individual will be pronounced diabetic. A reading between 11.0 mmol/L or 1.8mmol/L or 199 mg/dL shows that the individual is in the stage of prediabetes. Different tests can check the normal range of blood sugar levels, and they are oral glucose tolerance tests, fasting blood sugar tests, and random blood sugar tests.

Usual helps in the day-to-day activities of the people and organization. The textiles industries can use the normal range to design clothes and other things to fit a wide generation and allow room for clothes adjustments. Also, the normal range can be used in the furniture industries to make furniture that is almost of the same size as the normal is something widely used in different industries without actual measurements.

The health institutions greatly use the concept of normality and the range of normality to know how the patients are and how their treatments can be administered. In psychology, it helps psychologists learn the behaviors of the patients, even the individuals themselves, in the settings they are either in the outer society or workplaces. The government looks at the normal running of the nation’s activities and concludes that it can allocate the resources and maintain normality across the nation.