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