…because I didn’t spend enough time in the sun as a kid?
It’s quite possible. I always had a preference for staying inside and reading.
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…because I didn’t spend enough time in the sun as a kid?
It’s quite possible. I always had a preference for staying inside and reading.
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Nah, it’s because you’re smart. As I understand it, there’s a strong correlation between intelligence and myopia. I experienced a bit of anecdotal evidence of this in college: in my four years at MIT there were about 60 other young men in my living group at one time or another: all but one was near-sighted enough to wear glasses.
This hardly seems a mystery per se. Natural selection would brutally prune out of the species genes that contribute to poor eyesight — unless they also contributed to, or were part of a gene group that contributed to, some other strongly compensating quality. And apparently they do.
Could be.
I spent daylight hours outside as a kid, evening inside in a book.
Until I started doing computers full time, my left eye was 20/10 and my right was 20/400. (Now my left needs some minor correction.)
When I first went to the eyedoctor, he was showing my mom how my “distant” eye was dominant for things farther away, but that reading was with my right eye, which I brought really close in.
The massive brains of smart people presses down on the eyeball, flattening it, thus causing myopia.
It’s not the volume of thinkatronic fluid per se, TQ, it’s often the density of thoughts dissolved in it. But even that doesn’t tell the complete story, since some folks have light, strong, fully aerodynamic titanium-alloy thoughts, and others have thoughts of pure lead gilded with chrome tailfins in execrable taste.
I don’t know. I grew up in Florida, where the sun is pretty fierce. I spent as much time indoors as possible, but I couldn’t avoid sunlight altogether. At the very least, one of my chores was washing dishes in the afternoon after school, and our kitchen window (above the sink) faced direct west. And we didn’t have any air-conditioning. So yeah, I got plenty of sun whether I liked it or not.
I forgot to add: I got glasses when I was in high school, after several years of moving closer and closer to the front of the class because I couldn’t see anything on the blackboard.
FWIW I have seen a theory that giving adolescents reading glasses can help prevent myopia. Seems that constant focusing close up in that period(reading lots)causes the eyeball to grow that way and using the glasses causes the eyes to focus at greater distance.
I spent half my time running around shooting and catching things and the other half reading books so maybe that is why one eye is nearsighted and the other farsighted.
I’m failing to understand how the sun causes my eye’s focal point to be further back than it should be. I realize I’m not a neuroscientist. I do wonder if the availability of eye exams might have something to do with the numbers.
Interesting that the sun can affect the focal point of a person’s eye, but has little affect on global warming.
Anyway, if this affect the sun has on the size of biological things is true, then I think we need a study on the affect the sun has on wieners and boobs.