Manuel Viet wrote:
> I've spent most of my free time on computers since I'm ten¹, and my eyesight
> is 13 on the left and 12 on the right (we count in 10th, 10 being 'normal
> vision without glasses', every tenth more being 'over average'). There's no
> relationship between computer usage and degrading eyesight, that's a urban
> legend. ...
I don't know that this is an "urban legend".
http://www.myopia.org/myopiaprevalence.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6117-lifestyle-causes-myopia-not-genes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia
While not certain, it does not seem to be so easily dismissed as "urban
legend", noting also the varying prevalence amongst different cultures.
Cheers,
Marc
Noosa Heads, Oz
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