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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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The Importance of Standardization in the History of Women

The data for these statues came from a kind of complicated set of places for Norm Mann and it's spelled N-O-R-M-A-N. When they were trying to create Norma they kind of ran into a problem which is that there's not any equivalent amount of data for the American women at that time. They went hunting and hunting and then they found this study that had been done in the 30s by the WPA who was trying to solve a problem that so many of us still have today.

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