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by loriverkutya 1140 days ago
Could you show the data this statement is based on?

|most people have at least one or two outlier parameters that customization could |help with.

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It's simple statistics. The chance of every parameter not being an outlier is small.

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...

"Even more surprising, when Daniels averaged all his data, the average hand did not resemble any individual’s measurements. There was no such thing as an average hand size."