Source: https://news.byu.edu/intellect/study-visually-captures-hard-truth-walking-home-at-night-is-not-the-same-for-women

I aggressively look every direction. Mine is 360

Is this Loss?

This is what peripheral vision is for.

what is this from it looks amazing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelion%3A_1.0_You_Are_(Not)_Alone - the Ramiel encounter, specifically.

Doomguy is a woman, confirmed.

It's that scene in Pinocchio when he's busting out of that whale using the lazer vision his godmother gave to him

What is a BYU study ? DDG returns a mormon thing

Yeah, peripheral is better to detect subtle movement in low contrast areas.

Leaves me wondering if this indicates some kind of biochemical/neurological difference, or just like sociological differences. Like are women processing vision differently from men, or is this happening just because women are more worried about getting attacked.

is this happening just because women are more worried about getting attacked.

Uh... It's complicated, but

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_fear_of_crime

Long story short, the less likely the crime, the more women are afraid of it happening to them.

(And yes, this sentence is very slightly cherry picking data to provoke people to read the wikipedia page).

Is there anything about us that does not suck? I want to go a day without thinking the world would be better if we all died.

Something Something University?

Women tend to also process visuals differently. I do think I've seen data that show men's eyes tend to be more sensitive to movement while women tend to have better color recognition on average. Movement is often also detectable in the periphery.

So when women look at dark areas they may see more things there in color, this may create a sort of feedback loop for night time visual behavior in addition to obvious sociological concerns.

The way to test for a visual feedback loop would probably be to evaluate night time driving (or other safer conditions) differences to see if women tend to look more at low light areas.

Alternately you could put men and women out in the woods and see if their behavior aligns.

Would need to compare it to the same data sampled from different places.

No source, no sample size, just content to make people angry.

I'm absolutely flabbergasted that anyone walks anywhere without constantly scanning around them. How do people have the attention span to just look at where they are going and only where they are going?? And that is just the first hurdle I have...

I put the source in the comments: https://news.byu.edu/intellect/study-visually-captures-hard-truth-walking-home-at-night-is-not-the-same-for-women

As a transfem I am always looking for the bear :3

(NV reference)

thank you so much I appreciate you sharing that information

For a moment I was going to reply something like "It's from Robot Wars Ⅶ: Geometry Strikes Back" but then I remembered https://xkcd.com/1053/ and how much I hate people in IT just plastering software logos without names onto slides/pages. Tl;dr: you're welcome. It's a great movie, but also very, very wrong.

BYU = Brigham Young University. Famously mormon.

Thanks for the context

I went to Japan with 3 friends, all of us male. The itinerary was public and shared, we made discussions on where we were going each day. In train stations and cities all 3 of them asked me how was it that I didnt need to pause and could just keep walking to our next location. I pointed out the signs with perfectly legible english/romanji. The signage in Japan is great.

I get compliments on my perception, and refer to it as a minor super power of mine, but I think it's because I'm just constantly looking around.

/signed by someone who is also flabberghasted