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: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday June 09 2018, @02:40PM
Before I got very far at all into your post, I dropped The Authoritarians into my Reading List Bookmarks Folder.
I'll read it when I get back to the office this evening. No. I'll climb up to the top of the office tower where I now work, then shout it down to the people on the busy street below. :-/
It happens that I've had some close friends who were from such places as the once-prosperous steel mill city of Youngstown, Ohio, from rural Alabama and from a "dry county" in Tennessee. (Prohibition was _not_ repealed; rather, it left the regulation of alcohol up to each state.)
It happens that I have about forty really close friends who never ever complain that I'm an unrepentant spammer. I'll send them all the links in this evening's email blast. ;-?
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