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Why does computer engineering Barbie have glasses? I'm fairly sure myopia or hyperopia aren't caused by your choice of career, or vice-versa.
by Dylanlacey 16y ago
Why does computer engineering Barbie have glasses? I'm fairly sure myopia or hyperopia aren't caused by your choice of career, or vice-versa.
- ck2 16y agoThey must be those fancy glare reducing ones I've seen people use even with plain lenses ;-) But good catch on the "glasses as geek(ette)" stereotype!
- ShardPhoenix 16y agoProgrammer -> nerd -> lots of reading -> myopia.
- yesimahuman 16y agoMe -> programmer -> nerd -> lots of reading -> great eye sight.
- jsolson 16y agoRub it in why don't you.
- yesimahuman 16y agoI'm just saying, we shouldn't be so quick to generalize :)
- ShardPhoenix 16y agoIt's obviously not universal, but I doubt that the stereotype of glasses-wearing nerd is pure coincidence either.
- peyton 16y agoFor the same reason some dictators execute people with glasses--they're only truly needed for reading, for many with those conditions.
- sethg 16y agoI know that the Pol Pot regime considered people with glasses to be enemies of the state, but have any other dictatorships done the same thing?
- sammcd 16y agoI only need glasses to program. I started getting pretty bad headaches every time I would sit down to program, got my eyes checked and some glassed fixed the problem.
- derefr 16y ago> or vice-versa I have quite bad myopia (-4.5). My parents didn't notice this until I was in fourth grade (~9 years old.) I have a feeling that this contributed to my early enjoyment of indoor, "up-close" activities (reading, video games) in preference to "outdoor activities" where I would have relatively little clue what was going on at the other side of the soccer field/baseball diamond/etc. So, in a way, my bad eyesight could have pushed me toward computers.
- iuguy 16y agoI've often wondered this. I have acute astygmatism, and like very few outdoor pursuits. I'm not nearly active enough as a person and wouldn't be surprised. I do remember before I was diagnosed having terrible coordination, I'd really struggle in games like Tennis and Cricket, whereas with Computers I had no handicap. It made sense to me to focus on what I enjoyed and computing was easier than Cricket.
- sp4rki 16y agoComputer engineers have a tendency to read while not using adequate lightning, and to stare at screens for quite too much. That being said, it's not so much a matter of computer engineers using glasses because they are geeks, it's more because a "Computer Worker" can easily get headaches or fuck up his vision even more because he's staring at a computer for 10+ hours with less than perfect vision. A chef, psychiatrist, teller, or security guard won't need the glasses as much as we do. So yeah computer engineer are more prone to wearing glasses than the general population. That doesn't mean that more hackers need glasses than regular people, but it could easily mean that hackers feel the effects of imperfect vision more than regular people, and because of it, are more prone to use glasses to correct said vision impairments.
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- miloshasan 16y agoYou'd be surprised how many people walk around with terrible vision, without knowing it. My guess is that computer-related jobs require good vision, so people in these jobs are more likely to discover and treat their vision problems.
- ZoFreX 16y agoAlso, until relatively recently glasses were uncool and unfashionable. Computer geeks generally pay less attention to such norms and choose function over form, so a geek with marginally poor eyesight would perhaps be more likely to go for glasses than a non-geek, who would survive without for appearance purposes.
- gcr 16y agoI think jobs with computers are, in many ways, more forgiving to those with bad eyesight than other jobs. I have bad vision (just enough so I can't drive) but thanks to Gtk / Compiz, I can arbitrarily change the font size to be as big as I like it, and Orca and other screenreaders would help if I were completely blind. However, if I were a scientist or a taxicab driver or at a factory or throwing darts for a living, I'd be much worse off because I couldn't make those accommodations.
- VMG 16y agoWikipedia has something to say about this: > Daylight may prevent myopia. Australian researchers had concluded that exposure to daylight appeared to play a critical role in restricting the growth of the eyeball, which is responsible for myopia or short-sightedness.[37] They compared children from other developed countries such as Singapore and Australian children spent about 2–3 hours a day outdoors which could increased dopamine in the eyes that restrict distorted shaping of the eyes.[38][39][40] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia doesn't say anything about eye strain
- pascalchristian 16y agoShe has a 3D laptop