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Re:Eyeglasses for school kids boost academic performance, st... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @06:23AM (#28691995)
> whether eyeglasses gave some self-confidence, or if vision impairment somehow made affected kids more studious, or some shit like this

Being studious causes vision impairment. We noticed that a long, long time ago.

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Re:Eyeglasses for school kids boost academic performance, st... by erklik on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @06:42AM (#28692089)
https://www.nature.com/articles/519276a

It's less being studious, and more that being studious tends to be correlated with spending time indoors more. It's the spending time indoors that causes it apparently.

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Re:Eyeglasses for school kids boost academic performance, st... by koolba on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @07:01AM (#28692193)
> It's the spending time indoors that causes it apparently.

Not quite. It’s the lack of spending time outdoors.

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Re:Eyeglasses for school kids boost academic performance, st... by hutzlibu on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @07:04AM (#28692215)
Mixed together with (sometimes purposely) neglect of body and lots of reading small text with bad light conditions.
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Re:Eyeglasses for school kids boost academic performance, st... by verinus on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @07:47AM (#28692463)
actually it's only the light part. recent studies from South Korea and Australia find, that lack of light exposure causes vision impairment
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Re:Eyeglasses for school kids boost academic performance, st... by hutzlibu on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @01:02PM (#28696561)
Not only that. It really helps your eyes to look at other things and more importantly, at things at different distance.

Plenty of studies for that, too.

(not strictly for "outside" though, you can also look out of the window regulary, it is so that your eyes refocus and relax )

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Re:Eyeglasses for school kids boost academic performance, st... by tablespoonsruby on Thursday September 30, 2021 @04:08PM (#28710724)
Do you have a source? Everything I've read gave me the impression that we only have strong evidence that outdoor time is a factor, and the light exposure explanation is just a hypothesis.
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Re:Eyeglasses for school kids boost academic performance, st... by iainmerrick on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @06:41AM (#28692080)
I don’t know, there could be all sorts of confounders there. Like maybe poor eyesight means you’re not as good at sports which means you tend to focus on more studious hobbies like reading.

Or maybe reading and spending time inside tends to ruin your eyesight. Or maybe it does, but only because it takes time away from active pursuits like sports!

Does anyone have pointers to research that teases out the causes and effects here?

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Re:Eyeglasses for school kids boost academic performance, st... by erklik on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @06:42AM (#28692092)
https://www.nature.com/articles/519276a

This is a nice summary.

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