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Average does not have the same meaning in the context of this link and yours. We are not talking about physical measurements here.
by kalenx 7y ago
Average does not have the same meaning in the context of this link and yours. We are not talking about physical measurements here.
- chrisseaton 7y agoWhy doesn’t the same principle apply? One pilot is very good at one skill, another very good at some other skill. There exists no mean pilot that is fairly good at both, so designing or testing for that is a bad idea. Replace body dimensions with skill sets and it’s the same issue.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoReally, they shouldn't be trying to test for an "average" pilot, they should be testing for a "bad" pilot - one who can only meet the minimum requirements for a pilot's license.
- lostconfused 7y agoYou can train a skill and improve on it. You can't train your head shape or arm length nearly as much. The brain is more malleable than some of the other body parts.
- chrisseaton 7y agoI'm not sure what you're suggesting then - we should train all pilots to be uniformly brilliant at everything so there's no variation and we can use any pilot to test, before we test any more aircraft?
- stan_rogers 7y agoNo, it would be about making things safe/usable for the merely competent and not relying on "brilliance".
- chrisseaton 7y agoRight, but my point is there may not actually be any pilots who are merely competent at all skills. The distribution of skills may be more complex than that. You may be making things safe for someone who does not exist, which is pointless, and you'd be better off making things safe for something other than a simple mean average.
- inimino 7y agoYou're going off on a tangent based on semantics and speculation. Pilots who are competent at every basic skill, but don't have years of combat or test pilot experience or extensive experience on the plane in question absolutely exist and that's what we're talking about.
- anigbrowl 7y agoYou're getting hung up on this, like looking for the individual in a population who exactly matches an average, while ignoring the normal distribution that surrounds it. Don't obsess over the point, just center your window function around it.
- anigbrowl 7y agoYou understand a Venn diagram just fine though. It's the same sort of problem, just generalize to n dimensions and use a clustering algorithm, or decompose an overly complex problem into multiple clusters.