What is the significance of anthropometry to interior design?

Anthropometrics are tools for interior designers to aid working out how high or how far an average male or female may reach in relative comfort. These are factors that need to be considered when designing joinery or cabinetry, furniture, planning circulation spaces, work spaces, accessible spaces and to generally make the user comfortable in their interior environment. These anthropometric measuremnts are taken as per the average human being measurements and the drawings are of human beings performing various functions and movements.