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Women scan their environments constantly (hyper-vigilence) when in places where men typically do not (walking in the dark being one of those).

I should have quoted a different part of the post. How about the correlation with

> clear visual evidence of the constant environmental scanning women conduct as they walk in the dark, a safety consideration the study shows is unique to their experience.

I just don't get how this is clear evidence about "safety considerations"

From the article:

> "The resulting heat maps represent perhaps what people are thinking or feeling or doing as they are moving through these spaces"

Do you have an alternative theory that's more compelling than the one that many, many women report about their own thinking?