How we perceive smaller the areas of the (colourful) rings than of their inner (white) circles

Estimates of percentage of colour in the 4 circles above (i.e., number of black pixels vs. number of black and white pixels). Experiment on 45 university students.

The values on x-axis are slightly randomly moved, so the overlapted points may be visible.

(One group was asked about the percentage of black, the other about white - no significant difference)