Eye charts...

[coltle6920]

Whose bright idea was this?

Sure,I can read letters on a chart but my life is based on reading words and if one can't read then those individual letters don't mean squat.

I've got pretty good eyesight in that I don't need glasses other than to read the fine print on some medicine bottles. Driving down the road I can recognize street signs from a fair distance away. I can find any business I'm looking for without analyzing each letter.

Last time I had to look for a single letter I was trying to find where I parked at Denver Int'l. It didn't help because I was in the East side lot but actually had parked in the West side lot.

 

[Rustyt1953]

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[steelslaver]

I think this is a great eye chart

 

[STCM(SW)]

This is wonder crazy thread

 

[Telecaster]

It’s like ballistic gel. The eye chart isn’t meant to test a real-world scenario.

 

[Retired W4]

I guess I need a new gun.

Rusty, I understod ebery ting yu rote~

 

[s&wchad]

Eye charts...

 

[SMSgt]

It's a vision test, not a reading test.

 

[mtgianni]

If you get past 40 without glasses you are above average. If you get past 50, you are in the rare category. This of course includes reading glasses. There are many things that increase our quality of life. Not doing well on an eye chart test and needing glasses can improve your life in many ways.

 

[326MOD10]

Good to know what keeps you up at night.

I wish my life was this simple and these were the real world problems I had to contemplate.

 

[DWalt]

If you get past 40 without glasses you are above average. If you get past 50, you are in the rare category. This of course includes reading glasses. There are many things that increase our quality of life. Not doing well on an eye chart test and needing glasses can improve your life in many ways.

Wife and I both needed to start wearing glasses at age 40. That is also the age that other bad things begin to happen to your body.

 

[steelslaver]

If you get past 40 without glasses you are above average. If you get past 50, you are in the rare category. This of course includes reading glasses. There are many things that increase our quality of life. Not doing well on an eye chart test and needing glasses can improve your life in many ways.

At 40 I wore thick glasses and couldn't make out the E on top of the chart without squinting. In 1999 I went to Canada and got Lasik. My left eye ended up slightly near sighted and my right slightly far. I could read print no problem and see everything at distances. If I blocked my left eye print gets blurry and if I block my right distant objects blur a bit. But, each eye helps the other at distance or close. I haven't worn glasses since. Not even reading glasses. About 7 years ago things were dimming, but cataract surgery in both eyes and not all that much later later YAG laser treatments in one eye then the other fixed that. I am 73 and can read without glasses, pass the driver exam, spot game at distances. I am the end result in the improvements in eye care.

I do have great difficult in seeing any number in the yellow dot of the above eye chart however

 

[LVSteve]

It's a vision test, not a reading test.

This. The test determines your visual acuity, not your ability to recognize words.

Is it the perfect test to determine if you are fit to drive? No. The human visual system can be tricked into ignoring large moving objects in low contrast situations, or even small objects in good light with little relative movement. Also, way too much store is placed on binocular vision for depth perception. It works fine to about 16', but after that your eyes and the muscles that move them have insufficient resolution. Most driving situations are beyond 16', so you are working with what is called 'visual flow' and judge the size and distance of things based on experience.

I am going to guess that the OP has had an unhappy visit to the opticians, recently.

 

[Rustyt1953]

The OP has his tongue firmly placed in his cheek.

 

[LVSteve]

The OP has his tongue firmly placed in his cheek.

Maybe, and if so, I took the bait, hook, line, sinker, and bass boat.

That said, I have heard the exact same complaint from somebody who got an eye test and discovered that they needed glasses. Their vanity chip suffered a major meltdown. As somebody who has suffered from eye issues from early childhood, I am acutely (HA!) aware that being able to see is a subtle and complex business. I can almost guarantee that I don't see like anyone else on this board, but my wife says that is because the planet I'm from has a Sun with a different spectrum.

 

[Tom S.]

 

[lihpster]

The number of badass American servicemen who had to cheat on their eye exam to get into the military and then went on to do great things is staggering.

 

[glenwolde]

You'd think that in the 50+ years that I've been getting eye exams they'd come up with something else. Nope. Still the same chart they showed me in the 60's.

 

[Rustyt1953]

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A-NTgKxlU3U[/ame]

 

[Alk8944]

The OP has his tongue firmly placed in his cheek.

I certainly hope so!