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 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
As a transfem I am always looking for the bear :3
(NV reference)
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.
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.
is this happening just because women are more worried about getting attacked.
Uh... It's complicated, but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_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).
No source, no sample size, just content to make people angry.
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
Doomguy is a woman, confirmed.
What is a BYU study ? DDG returns a mormon thing
BYU = Brigham Young University. Famously mormon.
Thanks for the context
Something Something University?
This is what peripheral vision is for.
Yeah, peripheral is better to detect subtle movement in low contrast areas.
Is this Loss?
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.
New proof that I am indeed a woman just dropped ๐ ๐ป
Take that transphobes !
Noted. Attack men from the side, women from the front ๐
Wouldn't work, men don't just star blankly ahead, we scan the periphery without moving our eyes. We don't need to scan all around because our periphery is really good at spotting movement, this is why we can't see that thing in the fridge despite being right in front of us, it's not moving.
You joke, but when I worked in a grocery store people would ask for help finding something and nine times out of ten it was literally right in front of their face.
Did they ask you for the most beautiful person on the store?
But attacking women from the front would work??
Doesn't the Jurassic Park power-restore scene align with this, too? Muldoon gets wrecked by a raptor on his side, while Ellie immediately notices/dodges the one that pokes through the wiring.
Guess I'm a woman now. Thanks PTSD. Didn't even get the boobs.
I'm in the same boat. My wife is oblivious most of the time while my head is on a swivel.
They used to call him the Owl in highschool, not because of his rotating head but because of the inappropriate hooting noises he made whenever his future wife walked into the room.
I'm male but when I was a kid, my mom talked about stranger danger a lot and warned me about the supposed widespread kidnappings (was in China) and warned of "strangers following me home" I constantly just look around and glance back behind me every 30 seconds or so and check if someone is following me... and same thing when in the US too
This habit just stuck with me...
I probably look weird af lol
Fun fact, that behaviour, which becomes more common among people living in areas with higher crime rates as a self-preservation technique, is viewed as suspicious behaviour by police, and is likely to get you tracked by security if you do it in a store.
It also attracts the attention of people who are looking for an easy mark. Looking around nervously makes you look like a target in bad neighborhoods.
I aggressively look every direction. Mine is 360
what is this from it looks amazing
It's that scene in Pinocchio when he's busting out of that whale using the lazer vision his godmother gave to him
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelion%3A_1.0_You_Are_%28Not%29_Alone - the Ramiel encounter, specifically.
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 โ ฆ: 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.
that specifically is known as Rape Hill, so of course the women aren't looking straight ahead
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