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What is the 50th percentile?
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The middle value of one measurement across a population: half of people measure less and half more on that dimension. It says nothing about any other dimension.
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Why is designing for the average person a trap?
Answer
Nobody is at the 50th percentile in several dimensions at once, and combining a few such requirements leaves a band far narrower than half the population.
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When is the average a defensible choice?
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Where comfort rather than access is at stake and adjustment is genuinely impossible — a fixed seat pitch, say. Even then, name who is disadvantaged and what alternative exists.
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What should a designer do when full inclusion is impossible?
Answer
State who the product does not serve and why, bound the exclusion with real data, and provide an alternative where one exists — rather than claiming it suits everybody.
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