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.
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?
Last time i went to the eye doctor, the nurse told me “thats incorrect, try again” as if my eyes could magically focus on the letters.
Who “tries again” on an eye test? The letters are blurry or they’re not. Its not a multiple answer quiz
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 assume there’s also a bit of not feeling embarrassed to wear glasses.
I mean most countries have insurance and eyeglasses are free.
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 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)
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
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
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.
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”.
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”?
Friend of mine got lasik. She said she liked the aesthetic of glasses though and was going to get clear pairs to wear occasionally.
But she never did.
She missed glasses before she got rid of them. But not after.
If that makes any sense.
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’m 60. When Lasik first became available I considered getting it. But, I thought it’s new, and no one knows what will happen to the eyes of people who have it twenty years from now. So, I didn’t get it.
I’m glad I didn’t get it, because a few years later, my glasses, which were not specifically safety glasses, nonetheless saved my eye from a piece of flying metal. Since then, I always get the polycarbonate lenses, and I’m happy to wear glasses. My prescription isn’t especially strong, though--I don’t wear coke bottle glasses.
I’ve worn glasses since age 21. I had a roommate for a while who didn’t wear glasses, but decided he wanted them to hide a scar on his eyebrow that he got in a motorcycle accident. So, he got a pair with clear lenses. People wear fake glasses for reasons other than correcting their vision.
I always take my glasses off before looking in mirrors. I’m more attractive when I’m slightly blurry.
