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Jaggedness CLOZE Reading #2

Cloze Test Worksheet

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For decades, the Air Force presumed that the bodies of most pilots would lie within that vertical band, because they assumed that someone with average-size arms would also have average-size legs and an average-size torso. But because size is jagged, it turns out this is not true at all. In fact, Daniels discovered that less than 2 percent of pilots measured were average on four or more of those nine dimensions, and nobody was average on all of them* What if we were to expand the average band to include the middle 90 percent of each dimension, instead of the middle 30 percent? You might guess that most people’s bodies would surely lie within such a large range. In actuality, less than half of all people would.* It turns out that most of us have at least one body part that is rather large or rather small. That is why a cockpit designed for the average is a cockpit designed for nobody.

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What does the air force example demonstrate about the jaggedness principle?

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