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by perilunar 29 days ago
This is literally true on a physical level: The US airforce did a study in the 1950s that showed none of the thousands pilots they measured matched the average across multiple body measurements. i.e. no one was average.

https://austraffic.com.au/aba/us-air-force-finds-averages-ca...

Edit: the report itself:

  THE "AVERAGE MAN"?
  Gilbert S. Daniels, December 1952
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/AD0010203.pdf
1 comments

Thank you for linking this! It's great. :)