How do I can confirm if the following is a high standard deviation?

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If a dataset has a mean of 17 and a standard deviation of 6, is this a particularly high standard deviation from the norm? And if so, why?

I have a looked at a few of the similar threads here where users have had similar problems however I have not been able to work out how to apply the answers to this example.

I am not a statistician myself but need to make an assumption about some data that has been given to me.