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- From: mjharris@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Harris)
- Subject: Re: Eye redness experiment a success!
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 05:46:46 GMT
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- honig@binky.ics.uci.edu (David A. Honig) writes:
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- > despair@netcom.com (Scott Hanson) writes:
- >>In article <something> bagg@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>[experiment deleted]
- >>>I suggest trying the experiment with a single eye protected with
- >>>goggles (and the other left exposed). It's a more elegant
- >>>experiment that way. If you're really ambitious you could have
- >>>independent observers (who were not present for the actual
- >>>smoking) 'score' your eye redness.
- >>
- >>I remember my eye doctor telling me that medication, infections (and I
- >>imagine smoke particles) are easily transferred from one eye to the other.
- >>Also, an irritation in one eye may affect the other. The eye becomes red
- >>because of an allergic reaction, release of histamines, etc. This may
- >>make both eyes turn red despite the possibility that the goggles really
- >>work.
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- > I know that one pupil will respond to light in the other eye, due to
- >shared neural connections. Conjunctival injection (the med term for
- >red eyes) I have a harder time believing.
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- >But Bagg's point is very important: the original poster included no control.
- >No control, no conclusion.
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- >I didn't catch the orignal reason for doing this experiment, but
- >I can imagine it was hypothesized that redness if from topical irritation.
- >But smoking in a windy place keeps smoke off the eyes, yet they get red.
- >Another data point supporting the systemic counter-hypothesis.
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- >--
- >David Honig
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- >"Q: What does a C programmer say to an Ada(tm) programmer?
- > A: I'll have a burger and fries, no onions."
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- And if you want to see *real* red eyes eat a lot of pot. I doubt that
- glasses make a bit of difference in either case (smoking or eating).
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