When usability expert Jacob Nielsen conducted an eyetracking experiment to improve the effectiveness of news article design, he discovered that men (but not women) stare at crotches!
Although both men and women look at the image of George Brett when directed to find out information about his sport and position, men tend to focus on private anatomy as well as the face. For the women, the face is the only place they viewed.
This image of George Brett was part of a larger page with his biographical information. All users tested looked the image, but there was a distinct difference in focus between men and women.
Coyne adds that this difference doesn’t just occur with images of people. Men tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy on animals as well, as evidenced when users were directed to browse the American Kennel Club site.
Comments (11)
A picture doesn't have to be moving to show motion. The motion inherent in this picture is the swing of the bat. Perhaps a few of the guys got distracted by the swing of the - well, never mind.
Perhaps the women weren't looking at his crotch because they knew his hands weren't free to "adjust himself", so they settled for the face.
"guys start out looking at the batters face
and when its time…
looking at the swing of the bat…"
Except that the "image of George Brett was part of a larger page with his biographical information. All users tested looked the image...." Image, not video, no motion, etc.
"guys start out looking at the batters face
and when its time…
looking at the swing of the bat…
which happens to go through his package at that camara angle."
This is very true. Also, a person is also to take in the entire swing...the swing, the transfer of weight from the back foot to the front foot, the rotation of the hips, able to see where the batter is looking, etc...
other male animals do it all of the time
he wsa surely eating the insects around the body, but no way he "tore off larger pieces of flesh"
I'm from germany, and I did not hear that in our news so I searched the web for a german speaking version... and there seames to be none.
I tracked this info down to a british website of the questionable newspaper "The Sun":
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004092008,00.html
You can google the story in almost any language - except for german.
And everything you find bases on stories from UK.
is this a hoax made up by ALLAN HALL from The Sun? Or are german newspapers not interested in people eaten by spiders?
And: geckos don't feast on rotten bodies.
Sounds like those animals were kept in different tanks and that the heating elements exploded all at the same time? Doesn't sound logically.
It was reported on february 27th, 2004. You'll have to do a search on the archives for this one.