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differenceblog Oct 16, 2006 08:45

Krause et al. (1982) surveyed vision correction in 14 year olds in Finland. They found that girls were more likely than boys to have corrective lenses, but that when boys did need correction, their cases of myopia or hyperopia were more pronounced. This suggests that the boys (or perhaps their parents) had a higher threshold for correction- ( Read more... )

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