But how many of the 4,063 people in the survey could wear such an approximately average uniform? The answer was 0. No member of the entire 4,063-people survey was in the middle 30 percent for all ten possible uniform measurements. The tendency to think in terms of the “average man” is a pitfall into which many persons blunder when attempting to apply human-body-size data to design problems. Actually, it is virtually impossible to find an “average man” in the air force population. This is not because of any unique traits of this group of men, but because of the great variability of bodily
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