It doesn't seem to me that the devs are concerned with race or sex necessarily. It's that the average character is the default white male.
However, I'm thinking that there's a problem with their reasoning. It's based on two premises:
When any given user adjusts a slider, there's an equal chance they'll move the slider in either direction.
The closer you get to the end of a slider, the more likely it is that this feature will look weird. This being the case, people tend to stick toward the middle.
Assuming these premises are true, you'd end up with a normal curve for each slider. If so, any large group of characters (even those who look nothing alike) with average out to the center of the sliders.
It doesn't seem to me that the devs are concerned with race or sex necessarily. It's that the average character is the default white male.
However, I'm thinking that there's a problem with their reasoning. It's based on two premises:
When any given user adjusts a slider, there's an equal chance they'll move the slider in either direction.
The closer you get to the end of a slider, the more likely it is that this feature will look weird. This being the case, people tend to stick toward the middle.
Assuming these premises are true, you'd end up with a normal curve for each slider. If so, any large group of characters (even those who look nothing alike) with average out to the center of the sliders.