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A comment on Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020).

Re:Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020) by stevebmark on Sunday December 11, 2022 @06:48PM (#33948965)
It's interesting that this article surfaced shortly after the Ask HN question about maintaining eye health https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945390

This blog post and most replies are misinformation and misunderstanding, and people posting their own anecdotes as advice.

If you aren't considering the macula, emmetropization, circadian rhythms, and corneal thinning, then please don't give advice to others on this topic.

Most people, this blog post author included, don't understand what "good for your eyes" means. For some reason, when talking about eye health, people resort to anecdotes and guessing.

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Re:Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020) by KaoruAoiShiho on Sunday December 11, 2022 @08:39PM (#33949848)
Then please educate us, everyone wants to know...
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Re:Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020) by ergonaught on Sunday December 11, 2022 @06:54PM (#33949002)
Great! What is the empirical answer, then?
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Re:Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020) by midoridensha on Monday December 12, 2022 @01:02AM (#33951419)
Most likely, there is none. This blog post is just some BS that takes some talking points from one crappy study somewhere. The anecdotes in reply are just that: anedcotes, though honestly, they're probably overall of much higher value than the blog post, since they account for all kinds of issues that the post does not (such as the people with floaters).

I'm pretty sure there's no scientific consensus on this issue at all.

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