Name: 【TEDx】The Myth of Average: Todd Rose at TEDxSonomaCounty
Uploaded: 2017-11-09T14:17:43.000Z
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Host: Please welcome to the TEDxSonomaCounty stage,

Todd Rose: It's 1952, and the Air Force has a problem.

They've got good pilots flying better planes,

They eventually got around to blaming the flight instructors.

But it turned out that the problem was actually with the cockpit.

that in some cases can travel faster than the speed of sound,

and where issues between success and failure,

depends fundamentally on the fit between you and your cockpit.

Because after all, what good is the best technology in the world,

if you can't reach the critical instruments

But this presents a challenge for the Air Force.

Because obviously, pilots are not the same size.

how do you design one cockpit that can fit the most individuals?

it was assumed that you could do this by designing for the average pilot.

If you design something that's fit for the average sized person,

an Air Force researcher, Gilbert Daniels,

proved to the world just how wrong this really is,

and he measured them on ten dimensions of size,

how many of these pilots are average on all ten dimensions?

The assumption was that most of them would be.

there was no such thing as an average pilot.

was that every single pilot had what we call a jagged size profile.

It means no one is the same on every dimension.

doesn't mean you have the broadest shoulders,

But this is tricky because if every pilot has a jagged size profile

So, the Air Force realized they had a problem.

where the cockpit was designed for an average sized pilot.

And instead, they demanded that the companies who built these planes

designed them to the edges of dimensions of size.

Meaning that rather than design for, say, the average height,

they wanted a cockpit that could accommodate

as close to the shortest pilot and the tallest pilot

Now, the companies that made these planes, as you could imagine,

it's going to be impossible or at least impossibly expensive

But once they realized that the Air Force wasn't going to budge,

And it turned out it wasn't that expensive.

that we all take for granted in our everyday life,

improved the performance of the pilots that they already had,

but they dramatically expanded their talent pool.

And today, we have the most diverse pool of fighter pilots ever.

many of our top pilots would have never fit in a cockpit designed on average.

in the cockpit of a $150 million fighter jet, right?

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