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Here’s a study that will change the way you look at public space. Literally. Researchers from Brigham Young University asked participants to imagine walking through different nighttime environments and click on what drew their attention. The results?

👀 Men looked straight ahead - toward the path or destination. 👀 Women scanned the edges - the bushes, the shadows, the places where someone could be hiding. Research by Robert Chaney, Alyssa Baer & Ida Tovar news.byu.edu/intellect/st...

news.byu.eduStudy visually captures hard truth: Walking home at night is not the same for womenAn eye-catching new BYU study shows just how different the experience of walking home at night is for women versus men.

3/8/26, 10:58 am22 reposts59 likes

The visual difference is a reminder that design isn’t gender neutral. It either acknowledges fear or ignores it.

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It demonstrates that one gender has fear and the other does not. It’s not a matter of acknowledgement.

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So men wear blinkers then.