This article seems to ignore the fatal flaw in the search for the virtual person: While such a model is designed to represent all people, it in reality represents no individual. The ergonometric model says that a man is 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds.
I can tell you–as a man 6 feet, 5 inches and 320 pounds–that public facilities and equipment designed from this pontification frankly stink.
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