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Not too surprising, but it's interesting that if women are scanning for threats, they're probably doing it wrong as your peripheral night vision is better:

https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/31903/why-is-my-...

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Your peripheral vision has greater ACUITY at night but that doesn't improve its RESOLUTION. Your peripheral vision will be better able to alert you to movements at night. You will still be better able to identify objects - and threats - with your focal vision.

> Your peripheral vision will be better able to alert you to movements at night. You will still be better able to identify objects - and threats - with your focal vision.

In other words, you'll notice potential threats with peripheral vision first, so your eyes should not be darting around to all of the dark places as the heat maps show, unless you have cause due to movement or something. That was my point.

That might be an artifact of using pictures of paths instead of actually walking the paths for the study. It seems that the brain, despite the lack of peripheral in the study, still wants to focus on those highlighted areas.

It's almost as if clicking on photos with a mouse isn't a very good way to measure night walking behavior, isn't it?

Women often observe that men are eager to correct them and explain what they are doing wrong. I can’t help reading your post with that in mind.

And I can't help but notice that your sexist framing does nothing but distract from a factual discussion.

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