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When U.S. Air Force discovered the flaw of averages

• w-m 3y ago
  From the article: > There was no such thing as an average pilot. If you’ve designed a cockpit to fit the average pilot, you’ve actually designed it to fit no one. There was a comment today talking about this, and I hadn’t heard the story, so I looked it up. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39110365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39110365
• cyanydeez 3y ago
  another more fatal flaw is designing driver side crash zones around the average male and completely ignoring females.
• ncoppola 3y ago
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• a0-prw 3y ago
  Find the median for young men's measurements, design to this standard and recruit pilots preferentially among those closest to this.
  • 392 3y ago
    Or, you know, take five minutes to read the article.