There’s a famous case study in design about the Average Pilot - they were making airplanes than nobody could fly well because nobody was average enough in all physical dimensions to be comfortable in the aircraft. They had to design for ranges that the equipment could adjust through.

Even then when I was a kid I knew a guy who wanted to join the air force and he had a growth spurt that made him too tall.

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alistairSH 3 hours ago | parent [-]

More of the history of "avenge pilots" here: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-average/

	▲	hinkley 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Daniels realized that none of the pilots he measured was average on all ten dimensions. Not a single one. When he looked at just three dimensions, less than five percent were average. Daniels realized that by designing something for an average pilot, it was literally designed to fit nobody.