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99% of adults have abnormal faces, they all look different!
by amelius 9mo ago
99% of adults have abnormal faces, they all look different!
- leni536 9mo agoExcept that one guy.
- newsclues 9mo agoEveryone is abnormal compared to yourself.
- pinkmuffinere 9mo agoDude I know exactly who you're talking about, that guy without a unique face! Weird as hell that he's the only one...
- mghackerlady 9mo agoOk, in that case it's safe to say that the normal is highly variant but generally follows a pattern. People generally have a nose in the center of their face so that'd be normal, but one on the forehead would be abnormal unless everyone suddenly also had forehead noses
- iso1631 9mo agoRelevant history from the US Airforce in the 1940s when they tried to build a cockpit for the average pilot and failed I find this an interesting take on the story https://polkas.github.io/posts/cursedim/ https://polkas.github.io/posts/cursedim/
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- amelius 9mo agoThis is also a good argument why "opinionated" designs like from Apple are a bad idea. The average user does not exist. Stop trying to turn us into one!
- Swenrekcah 9mo agoI have used an iPhone for 8 years and a macbook for 2 years. Every year the experience gets worse, like on schedule. This theory might explain what is happening!
- binkHN 9mo agoSame with Windows; that's why I switched to Linux.
- kortilla 9mo agoThat’s different. Deciding you’re building a tool for a specific use-case is not related to “average users”. Tool companies manufacture claw hammers despite some people wanting a nail gun. You don’t try to make a thing flexible enough to be both a nail gun and a hammer. I’m a power user and I do all of my customization on my Linux desktop/laptop. I use an iPhone specifically because it’s locked down and don’t want a keyboard that has gone through no code review stealing all of my banking credentials.
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- mcmoor 9mo agoFrom the article, it seems like even if we only consider one dimension, there'd be ~70% of pilots that are uncomfortable. I'd have thought to at least cover 1 standard deviation, thus covering 68% of "average" pilots. But with 10 dimension it'd still only cover measly 2% of them. If we go to 2 std (95%), the 10-power would be ~60%. Quite small but seems acceptable if the initial target is only ~30% of pilots. But of course this assume all variables are independent. Seems like we could actually push the tolerance much lower than this raw math would suggest.
- jaccola 9mo agoI would hate to be one of the ~80 million people in the world who have identical faces