Mazen Ahmed
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screen Time effect on vision
Many studies have shown that significant eye damage comes from the excessive screen use in a long period of time. Screen usage typically comes from computers and phones most of the time because that is what most people spend their time on a daily basis. It started when people were spending a long period of time exposing their eyes to a screen. Screen usage have developed over time, from watching TVs to working on computers to spending time on phones. By the late 1990s, 98 percent of U.S. homes had at least one television set, and those sets were on for an average of more than seven hours a day, and that was just the start of the crisis. Shortly after that, personal computers were in every office and almost every home around the world. It allowed us to be creative and connected to each other by the amount of programs developers have made and that made us feel happy, but on the other hand it made us addicted to it which has affected our vision negatively over the past few years. In 2008, the first iPhone came out and people were obsessed with it to the point where 7 million units were sold in less than a year. This number is crazily insane right now and according to the market, there are around 1.5 billion smartphones sold every year, which makes us wonder, how does that affect us as human beings? The purpose of this study was to collect the data of people who use their phones everyday and to see if they wear glasses/contacts or not. Our hypothesis is that people who spend a lot of time on their phone, typically tend to wear glasses or contacts, while people who have an average screen time have good vision. To find accurate results, we decided to survey students of our school by only making them answer two simple questions to test our hypothesis.
By Mazen Ahmed4 years ago in Longevity