When U.S. Air Force discovered the flaw of averages

From the article:

> There was no such thing as an average pilot. If you’ve designed a cockpit to fit the average pilot, you’ve actually designed it to fit no one.

There was a comment today talking about this, and I hadn’t heard the story, so I looked it up.

another more fatal flaw is designing driver side crash zones around the average male and completely ignoring females.

Find the median for young men's measurements, design to this standard and recruit pilots preferentially among those closest to this.

Or, you know, take five minutes to read the article.