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[–] [email protected] 44 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

PerlyWhirl (https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1cx9qe3/comment/l52ia12/)

Reading small font text has not been shown to cause damage to the eyes (although you may experience eye strain from prolonged accommodation). However, long-duration near work has been found repeatedly to be associated with a greater risk of developing myopia or nearsightedness: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-14377-1

I’m a visual psychophysicist. We often recommend that people take breaks when doing near-work. The 20-20-20 rule: look at something that is 20 feet away for 20 seconds every 20 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

So is that why my teacher's computer kept having a prompt show up saying "stare far off" or "look out the window"?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

Interesting! Do you set an alarm for every 20 mins?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

So you do psychophysics?? Would you mind if i occasionally drew on you for limited questions or prompts for these type of similar inquiries?