How do I detect if an armour stand has something on its head?

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I need to know how to detect if an armour stand has a helmet on its head.
By that, I mean any item, such as a player head or other item.
I already tested something like :
execute as @e[type=armor_stand,nbt:{ArmorItems:[{},{},{},{id:"player_head",Count:1b}]}]

But unfortunately, this is not working. How can I make it work?
(I'm porting this to a data pack if anyone is curious)
I am in 1.16.5.

Crazed · Answer

Well a way to test this would be to use the replace item command, as you might already know, when a command block is executed it emits a redstone signal, so you could have a command block running to test if there is a helmet on the armor stand, you can do this by constantly replacing the armor stands helmet piece with air, and once someone puts a helmet on it, it will emit a redstone signal and then be removed. Here's the command:
/replaceitem entity <target> slot.armor.head air 1

Just make sure there is a slight delay between the time the helmet is placed and the time the helmet is removed. If you have any further questions feel free to ask me.

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