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- Subject: Re: Eye redness experiment a success!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.162832.52659@gmuvax.gmu.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 16:28:31 -0500
- References: <mtymp15.725065073@staff.tc.umn.edu> <1992Dec22.233408.26246@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec23.094024.24200@netcom.com> <2B38FD6A.15850@ics.uci.edu>
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- In article <2B38FD6A.15850@ics.uci.edu>, honig@binky.ics.uci.edu (David A. Honig) writes:
- > 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.
- >> (A SINGLE BLIND EXPERIMENT INSTEAD OF DOUBLE, YOU MIGHT SAY) Rad.
- >>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.
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > But Bagg's point is very important: the original poster included no control.
- > No control, no conclusion.
- >
- > 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.
- >
- >
- >
- >
- > --
- > David Honig
- >
- > "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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