In The End of Average , Todd Rose describes one of the US Air Force’s biggest blunders: In 1950, they called in over 4,000 pilots to take some 140 measurements of each of them. The goal? Design the perfect jet cockpit. They then went to work using the averages of all the measurements they had taken, which resulted in a cockpit that was…unusable.
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