Study would be much better if the participants were wearing glasses that surreptitiously tracked actual eye movements while walking home, rather than pointing a

Study would be much better if the participants were wearing glasses that surreptitiously tracked actual eye movements while walking home, rather than pointing at points-of-interest in an image. For some reason this media coverage just mentions nighttime, but the actual study had participants do this process for daytime photos as well, and honestly it shows a similar pattern – so not sure the evidence supports the claim in the coverage (as usual). And that part is not addressed in the study – anecdotally, women are much more scared of walking alone in the dark than in broad daylight. So if pointing out the periphery is an indication of fear, why is it still a strong tendency from females in the daylight, when they should be less scared?