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Originally Posted by Frenzie
That doesn't seem like a very plausible explanation for the worldwide increase among school-attending children, which has always been based on those silly eye charts.
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No, but it might be a contributing factor for older people.
https://www.theweek.co.uk/93139/myop...n-need-glasses
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This hypothesis holds true even for populations with little exposure to screens - studies in Israel show that orthodox Jewish boys who spend long days poring over printed religious scripture suffer from a far higher rate of short-sightedness than their secular counterparts.
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Spending all of your time focusing on something at a fixed, close distance at a young age may be bad for your eyes, whether it is a screen or not.