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I don't how they chose the dummy size and weight but they seem to do crash dummies based on median bodies, not "average" bodies, and the researchers who made th

I don't how they chose the dummy size and weight but they seem to do crash dummies based on median bodies, not "average" bodies, and the researchers who made the female dummy were Swedish so presumably wouldn't care about American sizes.

mythhouse 4y ago
NHTSA uses the word average not median.
- ryeights 4y ago
  Median is an average.
  - aikendrum 4y ago
    In common use average refers to the mean.
    - sgtnoodle 4y ago
      In common use, average means "typical" or "central". There isn't one specific statistical meaning.
    - kgwgk 4y ago
      In this case it doesn’t.
- lukeschlather 4y ago
  NHTSA says 50th percentile: https://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsas-crash-test-dummies https://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsas-crash-test-dummies
  - mythhouse 4y ago
    Ah Thanks. I was going off the image in the linked article https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62877930 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62877930
- sgtnoodle 4y ago
  Average can commonly refer to mean, median, or mode depending on context. It's good to use "mean" when precision is important.