This is a really interesting article. The most fascinating part is to learn that the AF actually listened to the man and changed their policies.
This kind of thing can happen even when only measuring a single dimension, if the distribution is multimodal. If everyone is either really short or really tall, then nobody will be near the average height.
I realize that the audience is quite different, but it’s interesting to compare the response to “no woman matches our expectations” (means they’re fundamentally broken) vs “no man matches our expectations” (means the model is fundamentally broken).
This kind of thing can happen even when only measuring a single dimension, if the distribution is multimodal. If everyone is either really short or really tall, then nobody will be near the average height.