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posted by martyb on Saturday June 09 2018, @06:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-need-bigger-books-held-further-away dept.

New research led by scientists at Cardiff University and the University of Bristol found that people who spend more time in education are more likely to develop near-sightedness. Specifically, researchers found that for every year a person spends in education — where they are likely to spend more time reading and typing on computers — there is a rise in myopic refractive error of 0.27 diopters, a diopter being a standard measure of the optical power of a lens. An estimated 68,000 participants were examined using the "Mendelian randomization" (MR), approach which is often used to examine causal effect of a disease in observational studies.

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/1199570-study-suggests-education-causes-short-sightedness

https://www.salon.com/2018/06/07/theres-a-scientific-reason-nerds-have-bad-eyesight/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @06:28AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @06:28AM (#690708)

    I stare at computer monitors good 10 hours a day, I used to have 20-20 vision, now I am, what, far-sighted? Can't read small print now, like old people, except I ain't that old - mid 40s.

    Imma kill maself.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by BsAtHome on Saturday June 09 2018, @06:32AM (2 children)

    by BsAtHome (889) on Saturday June 09 2018, @06:32AM (#690710)

    You are just getting old. It is called presbyopia (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyopia). [wikipedia.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @12:11PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @12:11PM (#690759)

      Why are you trying to bring logical reasoning into this?

    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday June 09 2018, @06:45PM

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 09 2018, @06:45PM (#690892) Journal

      Sorry, getting old just means your lens becomes less flexible (and possibly the muscles that compress it become weaker). It doesn't make you far sighted, but it means that if you are far sighted you aren't as able to change your focus.

      FWIW, I'm nearly to the point where tri-focals would be prescribed, but I don't wear glasses to read a book...only to read a desktop screen. (If I drove, I'd need a separate pair for that, but even with correction I know that I shouldn't drive.)

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @06:36AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @06:36AM (#690712)

    This sorta bs research tell us to reduce research funding. Academia needs to figure some shit out.

    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday June 09 2018, @06:52PM

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 09 2018, @06:52PM (#690894) Journal

      Posts like this are why we need an "idiot" moderation tag. Sort of the opposite of "insightful". It's not a troll and it's not flamebait, but it's stupid. Overrated would also work, but you can't use that until the post has some other moderation.

      OTOH, I strongly suspect that the person who wrote the article didn't understand the research, or what statistical correlation actually means. I suspect the researchers were appalled at the form taken by the "popularization" of their study. But PR flacks are PR flacks, even if they work for a university.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @07:00AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @07:00AM (#690718)

    For what its worth, 67 years old, engineer, same... farsighted. I use 3.0 readers ( glasses magnification ) to read closer up or at the computer. Convex lenses.

    One of my favorite pet peeves is tiny print. Unless I need the thing really bad, being handed paperwork with fine print will nix the deal, unless the salesman is willing to concede that anything less than 12 point font is deemed to have no legal significance, at which we can line it all out and close the deal. If he won't, I have to go on the assumption that the company he works for is trying to pull a fast one on me, and its hard for me to fathom giving any valuable consideration to a company who tries to pull fast ones on old farts like me.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @07:19AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @07:19AM (#690721)

      The worst is (trying to) reading paperbacks.

      As for the slimeballs, well, slime's gonna slime.