Pease, Allan and Barbara - Why men don't listen and women can't ...

In the UK in 1997, there were 4, 132 child pedestrians
killed or injured on the roads, of which 2, 640 were
boys and 1, 492 were girls. In Australia, boy pedestrian
fatalities and injuries are more than double that of girls.
Boys take more risks crossing the road than girls and
this, combined with poorer peripheral vision, increases
their injury rate.
You can increase your peripheral vision range with
practice, just as fighter pilots do. The arc of a person's
peripheral vision can also increase under life-threatening
circumstances. During a prison riot at Australia's Perth
prison in 1999, inmates held several prison officers
hostage. They announced that unless their demands
were met, the officers would be killed. Prison
officer Lance Bremen reported that, until that time, he
had 'typical male tunnel vision'. Having survived the
incident, his peripheral vision had increased to
almost 180 degrees. Because of the trauma of the event
and the fear of being killed, his brain had expanded his
vision range to monitor anyone trying to sneak up on
him.
Why Women's Eyes See So Much
Billions of photons of light equal to 100 megabytes of
computer data strike the retina of the eye every second.
This is too much for the brain to handle so it edits
the information down to only what is necessary
for survival. For example, once your brain understands
all the colours of the sky, it selects only what it needs to
see - the colour blue. Our brain narrows our vision so
that we can concentrate on a specific thing. If we are
searching for a needle in a carpet, we have a more concentrated
narrow field of vision. Men's brains, being prewired
for hunting, see a much narrower field. Women's
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