The Average Human, Part II

Disney asking its female employees to to help design an animated male lead [1] reminded me of the average human [2], a post I made a few years ago.

Amazingly enough, the Face Research Make an Average [3] page still exists, only with a new crop of pictures.

I thought it might be interesting to compare how averages made with a fresh set of pictures would hold up to the previous set of pictures and remarkedly, they are very similar in nature.

The Average Woman

[The Average Woman in 2007] [4]… [The Average Woman in 2013] [5]…

The Average Man

[The Average Man in 2007] [6]… [The Average Man in 2013] [7]…

The 2007 pictures appear first, then then current, 2013 pictures. And then, the average of both men and women to create—

The Average Human

[The Average Human in 2007] [8]… [The Average Human in 2013] [9]…

I wonder how closer we are to my predictions of digital actors?

[1] http://violetimpudence.tumblr.com/post/39423861352/cups-of-tea-and-history-sashayed

[2] /boston/2007/08/28.1

[3] http://www.faceresearch.org/demos/average?img=/tomcat/average/uploads/img85452.jpg&tem=/tomcat/average/uploads/img85453.tem

[4] https://boston.conman.org/2007/08/28/average.woman.jpg

[5] /boston/2013/01/03/average.woman.jpg

[6] https://boston.conman.org/2007/08/28/average.man.jpg

[7] /boston/2013/01/03/average.man.jpg

[8] https://boston.conman.org/2007/08/28/average.person.jpg

[9] /boston/2013/01/03/average.human.jpg

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