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I have one of those aviator LED flashlights that has the red LED for chart reading at night without destroying your night vision. I'm going to give this a try!
Please be careful, and stop as soon as you notice any discomfort.
If this is real it's a huge deal. But unless they did a pre study release this is P hacked to death. 24 people, then narrowed to only over 40, 20% difference in some frequencies. If science worked we'd immediately re-test this. The cost savings per year could be enormous if it's true.
There's nothing that drives altruistic development of things that improve peoples' lives. There's only greed-driven capitalism. As a result, many helpful things sit on the shelf.
This seems dubious. What in world would be the mechanism? On the other hand, I don't see the harm in doing this and it seems easy to replicate. Hopefully others will quickly try to replicate it, and if they do, try to figure out why.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996814/ https://photosynthesiseducation.com/photosynthesis-in-plants...
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When I last looked into it, it seemed they were much more sure. Perhaps Wikipedia editors wanted refs that were more tempered. Any explanation of myopia must explain why it is far more prevalent now. Genetics does not explain that.
Not having a full explanation when there isn't yet one is ok. Genetics is clearly and obviously a major predictor of developing myopia. Any explanation not taking genetics into account is likely very wrong. Or we're goipng to be amazingly surprised! (And maybe in a good way! But sadly, I doubt it.) Genetics explains why being tall is much more prevalent in the Netherlands now. Always had those genetics, now with bett…
https://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120
> East Asia has been gripped by an unprecedented rise in myopia, also known as short-sightedness. Sixty years ago, 10–20% of the Chinese population was short-sighted. Today, up to 90% of teenagers and young adults are. In Seoul, a whopping 96.5% of 19-year-old men are short-sighted.
I don't know how that change is possible in one generation if genetics are to blame. It's possible I'm missing something though.
Questions: (a) Does this study sound plausible? (b) Would staring at the correct red color on a monitor work? Or would that not work since monitor colors are generated by mixing R, G, and B pixels and therefore not a pure wavelength? (c) Would it be reasonable methodology to test one eye to see if it improves over the other eye?
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Source please.
Frankly my experience with posting sources on HN has almost never been good. It's often just taken as a reason to pick those apart and start a flamewar. My comment above has been downvoted at least 5 times which makes me confident that this is one those times. For what it's worth I have no stakes in anything and no sources at hand. I remember having read at least two different studies about this, but it has been year…
I suggest you Google-fu yourself.
This seems dubious. What in world would be the mechanism? On the other hand, I don't see the harm in doing this and it seems easy to replicate. Hopefully others will quickly try to replicate it, and if they do, try to figure out why.