It is a common stereotype, smart people wear glasses. Has there ever been a rigorous scientific study made to see if there is any correlation between poor eye sight and intelligence? Does being nearsighted or farsighted matter? Is it just a myth?
2006-09-09 20:38:13 · 31 answers · asked by anim8er2 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
No.
Smart people are so hardworking that they had damaged their eye sights.All smart people are hardworking.You must be those smart and hardworking people,right?
2006-09-09 20:45:16 · answer #1 · answered by Nickname 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not sure about the rigorous study having been done or not but I do know that some people who wear glasses do feel smarter and
then proceed to learn more thereby becoming more intelligent because they've been taught that "to look like a professor is to look intelligent". Whether or not the near or far sightedness goes, I don't think it really much matters, just the teaching of whether or not they are told that glasses make a person 4 eyed or look professored....
2006-09-10 04:34:33 · answer #2 · answered by annrizzo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I tell you what, the presumption made by people nowadays on the "spectacles are smart" is caused by this point of view:
People who wear glasses are thought to read a lot and deal with computer a lot. They read too many encyclopedias and surfed too many pages on Wikipedia. However, this is not right. Consider this:
Not only nerds who wear glasses, game freaks also wear glasses. Are all game freaks smart? I don't think so. Unlike the smart people, they wear glasses due to the hours they spend in front of the TV and computer screen.
So what do you think? Is it just a myth?
2006-09-10 04:31:38 · answer #3 · answered by unquenchablethirst 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is just a myth but that is my personal experience.
I remember my Math teacher from 10th grade. She used to wear glasses. In 10th grade, I studied a chapter, Kinematics n if u know anything about Math, u would know that there are graphs in this. N the graph book we were using had such small squares that my eyes started to ache. I think if I had to do that one question again and again and again, I'd need glasses too.
One other thing which happened to a friend's neice is that (she was a very little girl. HArdly 4 yrs old) n she used to a watch a lot of T.V. Too much T.V and too near n she had to wear glasses. There is no connection of cleverness or anything, is there??
So, I think, that all those people, who read too much in the dark, who stay on computer and t.v. too much eventually get glasses. N yes, the mathematicians too.
2006-09-10 03:59:57 · answer #4 · answered by Knowledge Seeker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that there has been little official study into this area. The main causes of prescriptions are due to the axial length of the eye (from front to back of eyeball) and/or the refractive power of the eye (how strong the lens in the eye is). As far as I know there is no correlation between the genetic make up of the eye and your level of intelligence.
However, people who spend a lot of time studying are more prone to noticing the start of a slight prescription quicker and therefore, as someone who studies a lot, they may appear ´smarter´.
2006-09-10 03:52:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It has nothing to do with intelligence. But most smart people read alot so they need glasses, on the other hand you got people who watch TV a lot or sit too close to the screen and not all are intelligent.
2006-09-10 03:41:46 · answer #6 · answered by Ocean 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think there are studies that firm this up. Of course it is a generalization. But over the years, I personally have come to believe this as a probability. Of course you know I wear glasses too!
2006-09-10 03:43:09 · answer #7 · answered by TG Special 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think its a myth, although many people who wear glasses are more educated. I think this has to do with the fact that wearing glasses carries a stigma, geek, and so many people become that stigma because of it. I am a nerd though, and I dont wear glasses. I think its just another one of those old wives tales.
2006-09-10 03:41:21 · answer #8 · answered by Jess 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My God! It's just a myth! Not all persons wearing eyeglasses are intelligent! Having poor eyesight doesn't mean you're reading books all the time and that you're one genius person.What if you've got astigmatism hereditarily?
2006-09-10 05:30:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
myth, but once branded nerd cause of glasses we the glasses people usall try harder to be smart cause weve given up ever being seen as anything else than geeks and thats why contacts exisist.
2006-09-10 03:49:33 · answer #10 · answered by a perfectly contradictory cat 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. People w/glasses are just smart enough to do something about the fact they can't see
2006-09-10 03:46:27 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋