Thread: Where are all the blind people?
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Old 01-17-2020, 12:00 PM   #23
John F
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
That's a little misleading. Diabetes and obesity have always been large contributing factors to vision issues. They don't qualify as merely "other things." They very well could be the right things to attribute it to. Did you check to see if an increase in diabetes and obesity more closely matches the increase in vision loss for the same period? I would be very surprised if diabetes and obesity hadn't ballooned at least as much as vision loss in that same time frame. If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and walks like a duck; quite often it IS a duck.
I didn't mean to dismiss "other things", I think I meant the opposite. I had read that diabetes and obesity had ballooned, so I thought that if "other things" contributed to low vision, than it would show in the data, so the effects of displays could be ruled out?

I am not a statistician, so I expect other people to crunch the numbers.
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