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Subject: Re: learning to read at an early age - glasses
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Date: Mon, 28-Nov-83 15:33:20 EST
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I seem to remember reading somewhere a *long* time ago that when the
research was actually done regarding the relationship between glasses
and doing a lot of reading, the result was that the correlation was
real, but the causality was in the opposite of the usually accepted
direction.  That is, being nearsighted happened first, the reading
came later.  One suggested explanation was that being nearsighted made
it more interesting to read (deal with nearby things) than play catch
(deal with far away things.)

Rick Thomas
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