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    $\begingroup$ I was quite amused when I worked in NMR imaging (now known as MRI), and the machine I was working on was designed to the same 5-95% of the US adult population. It turned out that many more than 5% of patients could not fit in the tube, as the people who could afford to pay for an MRI formed a very skewed subset of the adult population who were rather bigger than the 95 percentile. Ooops! $\endgroup$
    – Neil_UK
    Commented Jan 12, 2023 at 15:53
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    $\begingroup$ ... presumably in the direction that makes them not fit in the tube ... $\endgroup$
    – davidbak
    Commented Jan 12, 2023 at 21:33
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    $\begingroup$ Could you label who is who in the photo? Lawrence can be guessed by her height, but it's hard to tell who is Wolf and who is Parazynski without clicking on external links. $\endgroup$
    – jaskij
    Commented Jan 13, 2023 at 8:43
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    $\begingroup$ @jaskij they literally have nametags sewed on their clothes. You will see that Scott is labeled "Too Tall" and Wendy "Too Short". $\endgroup$
    – Organic Marble
    Commented Jan 13, 2023 at 13:06
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    $\begingroup$ @OrganicMarble I did not think of that, but at least on my PC the photo is so small when displaying here on SE that I didn't realize the tags were there. When opening the photo in a separate tab and zooming in they are visible and readable though. $\endgroup$
    – jaskij
    Commented Jan 13, 2023 at 13:54