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Interestingly, reading is usually done indoors.
Yes; among other reasons, sunlight reflecting off the white pages of a book is bright enough to injure your eyes. The basic Kindle model is grey and can be comfortably read in sunlight, and yet somehow people are convinced that the "PaperWhite" model is better...
The different usage of words and their meanings in English is interesting and makes me think this weird miscommunication is why we have so many arguments. In my everyday, the article would be referring to nearsightedness, short sighted would be when someone doesn’t think through all the possible things, lacking foresight. By definition it’s both but in every day use it’s not.
Homophones are a pain for us bad spellers.
Pet peeve about language use: I thought it was obvious that short-sightedness (Exclusively Short term thinking) is an epidemic, nobody on Wall Street can see past the next Quarter's numbers. I don't need the economist to point that out. Nearsightedness is what this article is about... a completely different thing. I've dealt with that my entire life... and just went through the knock-on effect of retina detachment, a…
Short-sightedness is the eye problem in British English: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/short-sightedness/ We also use long-sightedness.
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I can't believe you're serious. I wear glasses and there's nothing wrong with me. Last thing I want is to live in a world where I'm pressured to be genetically engineered for having the wrong kind of eyes.
If there’s nothing wrong with you, why are you wearing glasses? I wear hearing aids because my hearing is flawed. I would be ecstatic if there was a genetic solution.
There's nothing wrong with my vision because I wear glasses. I like my glasses. I consider glasses to be a satisfactory technology that solves the problem I used to have before I got them. I see myself as one with the technologies I use. If someone thinks I should adopt the GE technology instead of the optical glassware technology, then fine, but no one has the right to tell me I have a problem.
Ideally what I'd want are glasses that let me see the things normal people can't see, like electromagnetic radiation other than the narrow part of the spectrum for visible light, such as infrared, gamma rays, and hidden colors, etc. Superhuman vision would be real progress imho and a whole lot less creepy than what's being proposed here.
The different usage of words and their meanings in English is interesting and makes me think this weird miscommunication is why we have so many arguments. In my everyday, the article would be referring to nearsightedness, short sighted would be when someone doesn’t think through all the possible things, lacking foresight. By definition it’s both but in every day use it’s not.
I didn’t realize the evidence is strong that daylight keeps kids from becoming near-sighted. Making young kids study all the time is killing their eyesight!
It may just be a pet peeve, but it rankles me a bit when the term "epidemic" is used to describe widespread conditions that are not communicable/infectuous. Looking at the dictionary it appears the usage here is legitimate, but my guess would be that it is a misuse that has become accepted, like using the term "begging the question" to mean suggesting the question.
In my early teens I had 20/15 vision. By the time I went to college I was wearing glasses for nearsightedness. I'm pretty sure it's because I got interested in computers, and started spending all day staring 3ft ahead instead of glancing around outdoors. Some friends in my computer science program passed around each other's glasses and found we all had nearly the same prescription. That didn't seem like a coincidence…
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Mine is genetic. I have very similiar values than my mother. So i'mnot sure if / how your theory is correct or not. Also there are a lot of normal people in the world who live outside and also don't have perfect eye sight at all. This goes back a long time. Can you also elaborate on your 2 diopter difference between red and blue light? For one i find that number very very big but i'm very good in seeing full color wi…
> Mine is genetic. > I have very simil[a]r values than my mother. Well, everything is genetic. The amount of sunlight you're exposed to is no less a genetic effect than how tall you grow to be. Without genes, you wouldn't have any behaviors or phenotypes at all. So the interesting question is not "is this phenomenon genetic?", because the answer to that is always "yes". The interesting question is "what can influence…