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by adjwilli 2036 days ago
The last bit about how none of the sampled rocks was actually a cube reminded about this article (https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...) on how when you design for averages you're actually designing for no one. They tried to make a scruple of the "average woman" based on average measurements, but no woman they found actually had the average measurements