The Two-Metre Human in a One-Size-Fits-Most World
An embodied analysis of the “Sméagol posture effect” Imagine a person born in 1978 who grows to 2 metres tall. The world they enter is not hostile by design; it is simply calibrated around statistical averages. Almost every object around them is the result of a compromise: average body height, average arm length, average leg length, average shoulder width, average sitting posture, average…












