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My first impression is that this is a particularly stupid idea. It will probably result in lot of kids not seeing the number because they're a little too short

My first impression is that this is a particularly stupid idea. It will probably result in lot of kids not seeing the number because they're a little too short or a little too tall for their age.

afterburner 13y ago
But some will. Interesting idea, I guess it's so the abusing adult doesn't hastily pull the kid away from memorizing the number?
sgrove 13y ago
It seems to be a novel approach, certainly worth the experimentation. Calling it stupid is going far overboard without intimate knowledge of their expectations and motivations.
muyuu 13y ago
Better than nothing at all.
markdown 13y ago
Then put another one on the opposite wall showing the number to everyone. Problem solved.
pseudonym 13y ago
For one, there is no "too short" for this particular type of display. It's an under-over type of thing. For two, they're explicitly taking the 'average height of a 10 year old' for this. You would write off the entire ad as pointless because, as implied by the very definition of "average", 50% of 10 year olds and a smaller percentage of each age below 10 would be unable to see it? Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater...
- mcintyre1994 13y ago
  That criticism sounds valid to me. That's a lot of children, and it's not like 10 is some sort of cut off point for anything.
  - pseudonym 13y ago
    I think the only cutoff is "lower bound of the height a potentially abusive adult would see it at", and retroactively went back and said "okay this height is average for a 10 year old". According to what I find from a quick google, average height for a 10-year-old is about 4.5", with it starting to spike up dramatically at the age of 12-13 (from ~50 to ~60"). Without knowing the actual height they set this for, though, it's impossible to say how many kids they would or would not get with this kind of advertising.

My first impression is that this is a particularly stupid idea. It will probably result in lot of kids not seeing the number because they're a little too short or a little too tall for their age.

afterburner 13y ago

But some will. Interesting idea, I guess it's so the abusing adult doesn't hastily pull the kid away from memorizing the number?

sgrove 13y ago

It seems to be a novel approach, certainly worth the experimentation. Calling it stupid is going far overboard without intimate knowledge of their expectations and motivations.

muyuu 13y ago

Better than nothing at all.

markdown 13y ago

Then put another one on the opposite wall showing the number to everyone. Problem solved.

pseudonym 13y ago

For one, there is no "too short" for this particular type of display. It's an under-over type of thing. For two, they're explicitly taking the 'average height of a 10 year old' for this. You would write off the entire ad as pointless because, as implied by the very definition of "average", 50% of 10 year olds and a smaller percentage of each age below 10 would be unable to see it? Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater...

mcintyre1994 13y ago
That criticism sounds valid to me. That's a lot of children, and it's not like 10 is some sort of cut off point for anything.
- pseudonym 13y ago
  I think the only cutoff is "lower bound of the height a potentially abusive adult would see it at", and retroactively went back and said "okay this height is average for a 10 year old". According to what I find from a quick google, average height for a 10-year-old is about 4.5", with it starting to spike up dramatically at the age of 12-13 (from ~50 to ~60"). Without knowing the actual height they set this for, though, it's impossible to say how many kids they would or would not get with this kind of advertising.