Follow-on showerthought: you can only really fail a test that is designed to determine if you need glasses by cheating on said test.
That feeling when you accidentally memorize the eye chart and then are uncertain about whether you are seeing the letter clearly or just seeing what you expect to see.
Isn’t that why they change it up?
Yes. I had a guy who got upset because they switched to the digital board for the eyesight exam for his amateur piloting recert so he can’t just memorize the letters anymore
“I know the first one is an E, but I can’t read it”
Was about to comment this. You can’t really fail an eye test, the desired result of the test is to determine how good your eyesight is, so the only way to fail it is is incomplete or incorrect data.
It’s not like a maths test where the desired result is, say, 80% or higher.
Glasses are seen as a sign of intelligence because intelligence correlates with having a good education - and (especially historically) so does being able to afford glasses.
I’m pretty sure in a few cases at least it’s because academics don’t consider eye health and stare at things way to close for way too long for days, weeks, months on end which damages their vision
Wearing glasses strongly correlates with how much time you spent outside as a kid. Less time outside = more likely to wear glasses
TIL - nice.
Don’t think that’s true.
https://opto.ca/eye-health-library/reading-myths-debunked https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/eye-health-myths-and-facts https://news.uthscsa.edu/myth-or-fact-can-sitting-too-close-to-the-tv-hurt-your-eyes-will-wearing-glasses-weaken-your-eyes-test-your-knowledge/
I guess maybe “a few” could be true but that’s probably true of anything, like ants damaging vision, and so glasses are a sign of having ants
I mean most countries have insurance and eyeglasses are free.
I did say “historically”
The thing about stereotypes is they tend to persist for a long time, even after they are no longer true (if they even ever were)
eyeglasses are free
I fucking wish! My glasses are the sixth most expensive thing I own after my bike, my computer, my bed, my phone, and my TV!
Actually might have been more expensive than the TV, not sure.
I assume there’s also a bit of not feeling embarrassed to wear glasses.
I sometimes looked myself in the mirror… like I got so used to seeing my reflection in glasses, that if I ever like go without glasses… say if I get lasik, then I’d look so weird…
I literally had this thought earlier today… like… do people who get lasik still wear fake glasses so they look good aesthetically speaking? Or as you said, “to look smart”?
I always take my glasses off before looking in mirrors. I’m more attractive when I’m slightly blurry.
It’s one of those things that’s too subjective and heavily depends on a person.
I know a person who got lasik just because she hated glasses. I, myself completely avoided wearing glasses as long as possible and still do if not necessary aka i don’t need to see clearly further than a meter. But at the same time i go around wearing sunglasses almost every time I’m out and it’s just daytime.
I know people who wear fake glasses just because they like how it makes them look.
But at the same time i go around wearing sunglasses almost every time I’m out and it’s just daytime.
Same. They could be called dayglasses, as far as i am concerned
Pretty much, actual sunglasses would need to be even stronger, especially during summer or clear winter day with snow.
Well, for my own anecdotal evidence: My Rx is strong enough that my glasses pull my eyes inward a bit, and when I wear contacts, my main complaint is that my eyes look a bit too far apart. So in that case getting lasik and wearing glasses without an Rx would probably still result in that still being the case.
I think people decide they don’t want to look smart a lot of the time when they get lasik. They just want to look “normal intelligence” and “hotter”
Does looking smart even help in a lot of things? well, job interviews I suppose. The main way to look smart is to sit up straight, dress formally and be polite
Cheating on a vision test to not get glasses when you clearly need them is like the ultimate dumb thing to do.
Hence, glasses are a proof you are not totally a dumb fuck.
I once asked my optician about this whole numbers game, as I have a great memory for numbers and after finishing the left eye, they take the same fucking numbers for the right eye. She told me they only use it for verification, the actual measurement of your eyes is done with that device you need to look into before. But yeah, the number game is still useless most of the time…
Your sentence consists of three parts, and all of them are wrong.
It used to be assumed that one got glasses from reading too much, which most people believed caused nearvision.
So wearing glasses was usually the sign of someone who “read” a lot. Or so the common wisdom at the time went.
Which is why they got teased for being “nerds” or “bookworms”.
Maybe it’s actually a pass on the vision test. The better your vision the worse the score, and the very best get to buy the biggest and thickest glasses as an honorary prize.
I know plenty of dumb people that wear glasses. Trump voters even.
