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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/
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @07:00AM (1 child)
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
The worst is (trying to) reading paperbacks.
As for the slimeballs, well, slime's gonna slime.