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by justinpombrio 106 days ago
This is a terrible source of information: it's talking about a survey about vision problems, by an eye care company, and you can't see the survey.

I'm completely sure that the way they worded the question the headline is about was very generously worded and that the phrasing in the headline misrepresents what it asked, because that's how these things work. Not that anyone is at fault, of course, the headline isn't a lie, and of course there are other reasons that the survey is hidden behind a subscription wall. It just so happens that the percent of people with screen-related visual discomfort according to the eye-care company survey is, I dunno, 2x higher than it would be if you asked the question directly. That's just how these things work.

(I suspect that someone is going to confuse this comment as me saying that eye-strain from screens isn't a problem for a lot of people. Pre-empting that by agreeing that, yes, of course eye-strain from screen is a problem for a lot of people.)