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The Mythical Average: Deconstructing the Reasonable Person's Identity

The reasonable person standard embodies implicit demographic assumptions including white, male, middle-class, educated, urban, able-bodied, mentally-healthy, neurotypical, Western, individualistic, professionally-trained, & psychologically-rational characteristics. Legal fiction disguises subjective cultural biases & demographic assumptions. Reasonable person standard systematically privileges dominant populations while marginalizing non-dominant populations through ostensibly objective standards.

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