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And as always with inequality issues, it's not just the disadvantaged group that is affected. Men that aren't average in all dimensions are also not represented
by kqr 5y ago
And as always with inequality issues, it's not just the disadvantaged group that is affected. Men that aren't average in all dimensions are also not represented by the dummy.
As we found out with cockpits[1], le homme moyen is a mirage. We'll see how long it takes car regulators to catch up.
But it's not just cars -- Jensen's inequality says that for any asymmetric cost function, minimising the cost of the average is different from minimising the average cost. Yet people are still -- and probably will be for a long time -- minimising the cost of the average.
[1]: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-force-discovered-the-flaw-of-averages.html https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...