About CB's eyesight (in Off-topic)

Taken from the poll I started, 186 people voted:

I have 20/20 vision or better. 34.4
I'm wearing contact lenses. 14.5
I'm wearing glasses. 39.2
I've had laser corrective surgery. 2.7
Todd and Mushu gave me an unfair advantage. 9.1


Almost 10% didn't care about this poll, or couldn't see it entirely. That's 17 people who are 'blind' ;p
From the rest of the people, little more than a 3rd has good eyes while almost 2 thirds is in need of corrective measures, either glasses, lenses or had a corrective surgery.

This got me thinking. If we count CB as 'an average people' then about 2/3 of the entire world population is in need of visual corrective devices... quite shocking not?



This made me think even more, did we always see this bad (in general) or did we lose our visual capabilities gradually because we don't need to hunt for our food anymore like our ancestors once did?

I'd hardly call CB a representative random sample.

If nature were to run its course then 'animals' with impaired vision would usually get eaten or starve. They stand a less chance to reproduce. Thus they stand a far lower chance of passing on their 'defective vision genes'. The genetic pool slowly moves in favour of better eyesight.

With humans this doesn't happen. We get glasses. No drama. Still able to pass on genes etc. So theoretically speaking humans are evolving towards a worse off kind of way. Think of all the genetic problems we have stored up in our gene pool that are allowed to be reproduced. Ah well.

we are geeks, geeks wear glasses or need to. ; )

now for the pocket protector and slide rule poll!

First ... the asthmatics poll! Let's see how closely related the "carries an inhaler" and "sits all day & night, every day & night, staring moodily at yet another of Ranger's petulant-yet-self-aggrandizing posts" behaviors are:

1. I can breathe
2. I can breathe with pharmaceutical aid
3. I can breathe with mechanical aid
4. I Am Your Father.

I would say it has to do with all the strain we put on our eyes small print through out out our lives. Such as text on the internet, books, cell phone, TV, etc....

True, CB might not be a good standard population of people. still, bad eyesight is being mixed into our gene pool slowly. It's not that big of a problem when knowing that contact lenses, glasses or even laser surgery are available to us.

The cost of some however is that it indeed is hardly a thing you pick your future partner on. Sometimes someone even chooses someone because of their cute/handsome glasses.

Strange people we are, humans

5. Who's your daddy and what does he do?

I'm sure staring at monitors all day isn't helping man's ability to see.

{Jiraiya}-Fame.Vr 1:36 PM EDT
I'm sure staring at monitors all day isn't helping man's ability to see.

On the contrary!
This is all I have ever done. I have a degree in it. Nearly two. I still have better visual abilities than most people.

Well I believe that playing as many video games that I do, and being on the computer so much is the reason why I have bad eyesight. So, maybe this is true for others.

At least from what I googled, it's not far from the normal percentages JS.

Titan: it is somehow proven that playing video games could improve your visual abilities and that it does not deteriorate your eyesight.

People playing video games have faster reaction times also

to the first post id say: no, i doubt we have worse eyesight than before, if that were the case, then bad eyesight somehow was positive for reproduction and i doubt that, reason for corrective elements are because we now have the technology and idea about it.

to the last post id say: yeah we are more reactive (thanks to me playing starcraft for too long). I could work as a flyswatter or a secretary thanks to my gaming/writing ;)

I think my eyesight is borked because one of my hobbies as a young child was staring directly into the sun.

looking closely at the sun will accomplish nothing without zooming in with a magnifying glass to see it up close!

Shade: I agree with the faster reaction time, that's definitely true.

my eyes are as bad(-2.75/-2.75) as they are for yes probably staring at the sun too ^^ but i have been playing video games since i was 5 and i still do, im a vidoe game geek, but i work in construction and thats when i wear my contacts, glasses are for gaming. and for soemtime now ive contenplated corective eye surgery but it wont help me be a military pilot so im told

and i guess if you are over 5 foot 7 inches you cant be an astronaut.

If you smoke weed and play video games, you have a slow reaction time. Really slow.

I've had bad eyesight since I was a little kid with big thick glasses. Video games didn't do this to me.

Shade, are you suggesting that we're evolving into giant blind naked mole rats? Because I disagree. People are getting hairier.

"Almost 10% didn't care about this poll, or couldn't see it entirely."

Or the options you provided didn't apply to nearly 10% of us. See the amount of "none of the above" responses in the poll.