"Myope" is what eyeball scientists call people with myopia.
I like the way these people talk. They adore syllables. Check out the heightened syllabic incidence per unit of meaning in this snippet from a study of myope-related matters I found filed on PubMed:
Blur sensitivity in myopes.
PURPOSE:
This study compared the ability of myopes and emmetropes to detect subjectively the presence of retinal defocus.
METHODS:
Subjects (12 myopes, 12 emmetropes) were cyclopleged and monocularly viewed a bipartite target through an appropriate near addition lens via a 2-mm artificial pupil. One-half of the target remained fixed while the other half was alternatively moved forward or backward until subjects first reported a difference in clarity between the two halves of the target.
Coincidentally, this study appears to relate to something my boss Kim was told by the opthalmologist she visited last year soon after she noticed her vision was a little blurry: People who have not worn spectacles much of their lives are much less tolerant of blurry vision than people who have.
From which I extrapolate that being a lifelong myope results in a brain that doesn't panic when the information brought in by the eyes obviously can't be trusted.
I wonder if that also means that myopes navigate better in total darkness?
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