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Sometimes IT trackers put researchers upside down in an interesting intellectual position.

Below is a photograph of Ilya Pitalev : Solemn meeting of the DPRK People’s Army at the Kim Il Sung Stadium in honor of the 100th anniversary of Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang, in April 2012. Photography entered the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards shortlist .



If you look at the photo for 5 seconds, what is unusual you will notice? Consciously?
Meanwhile, an IT tracker will notice a very interesting feature of human perception ...


Here's how your eyes roughly moved:


The heat map (spatial distribution of fixations of views) compiled from the study of 20 people (17 women, 3 men, average age 30 years)


Number of fixations of views:


Attention, question: The
heat map shows where the respondents looked, but does not explain why they looked there.
Why is this woman so attracting attention?


There are already a certain number of hypotheses, some of which can already be checked in the near future.
I would very much like to hear the opinion of the Habr community on this matter, especially the pixel hunters who found Mars-3 from photographs.

All photos are taken with the consent of the author of the study.