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

[w-m]

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/when-u-s-air-force-discovered-the-flaw-of-averages/article_e3231734-e5da-5bf5-9496-a34e52d60bd9.html

[w-m]

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

[cyanydeez]

another more fatal flaw is designing driver side crash zones around the average male and completely ignoring females.

[a0-prw]

Find the median for young men's measurements, design to this standard and recruit pilots preferentially among those closest to this.

[392 → a0-prw]

Or, you know, take five minutes to read the article.