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Originally Posted by LtChambers
The tech outpaces a trial? How long does it take to have people read for a few hours and report their eye strain? This isn't healthcare research where survival over a human's lifetime is critical to study
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It outpaces the trial with respect to long term effects which is the only thing we care about (if it damages, then there's concern- but it's mitigated by the fact the tech gets outmoded in 5-10 years). Eyestrain is fully understood... NO expert says, "It's a mystery, we think virgin sacrifices are involved."... moreover, understood to be TEMPORARY (like scalding your mouth), so a trial is meaningless when the cure isn't a different display but periodic rest/good habits. By the time you take out the variables of behavior, equivalent light sources and ambient lightning, etc. you reach the completely unsurprising result that light is light.
There might be some value in measuring people's differing habits between the two, but it's not like that's a mystery either. Incidentally, the world record speed reading holders accomplished their fastest feats on LCDs.