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Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?

340 points jbornhorst | 1 comments | 07 Mar 25 17:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source

I’m digging into an idea around eyeglasses, screen-time, and vision discomfort. If you wear prescription glasses but still get headaches, eye strain, or blurry vision after long screen days, I’d love to chat briefly (20–30 min).

Pure research, zero selling.

Interested? Drop a comment below or email me directly at jbornhorst [at] gmail.com. I’ll coordinate a convenient time to talk.

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stevebmark ◴[08 Mar 25 17:14 UTC] No.43301705[source]▶
I don’t know what your intentions or hypothesis are, but this is a dangerous place to be a novice in. Eye health is misunderstood and most people are ignorant of the basics. If you don’t know what emmetropization is, if you don’t know who Bates is, and if you don’t know why Bates is a quack, then I strongly discourage you from experimenting with user surveys.
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augusto-moura ◴[08 Mar 25 17:50 UTC] No.43301962[source]▶
I mean, what are the risks of the surveys? I don't think it will be dangerous to survey people without the full knowledge. Better to be curious about it than do nothing. Discouraging low risk research just for being pendantic sounds a like toxic gatekeeping.
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1. serial_dev ◴[08 Mar 25 20:55 UTC] No.43303424[source]▶
It really is just unnecessary and arrogant gate keeping.

OP for now just wants to talk to people, I assume to understand their issues, what they tried, what makes it better and what makes it worse for them. Talking to people volunteering for a call is not dangerous.

For all we know, OP will not see any pattern that fits their hypothesis and leaves it at that.