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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by anotherman554 on Monday November 07, 2022 @10:52AM (#33507404)
I don't how they chose the dummy size and weight but they seem to do crash dummies based on median bodies, not "average" bodies, and the researchers who made the female dummy were Swedish so presumably wouldn't care about American sizes.
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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by mythhouse on Monday November 07, 2022 @10:56AM (#33507471)
NHTSA uses the word average not median.
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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by lukeschlather on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:32AM (#33508054)
NHTSA says 50th percentile: https://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsas-crash-test-dummies
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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by mythhouse on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:38AM (#33508152)
Ah Thanks. I was going off the image in the linked article

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62877930

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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by ryeights on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:11AM (#33507706)
Median is an average.
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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by aikendrum on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:26AM (#33507938)
In common use average refers to the mean.
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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by sgtnoodle on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:32PM (#33509070)
In common use, average means "typical" or "central". There isn't one specific statistical meaning.
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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by kgwgk on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:34PM (#33509107)
In this case it doesn’t.
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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by sgtnoodle on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:29PM (#33509015)
Average can commonly refer to mean, median, or mode depending on context. It's good to use "mean" when precision is important.
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