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- From: ted@dgbt.doc.ca (Ted Grusec)
- Subject: Re: Bates method
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.234843.28547@dgbt.doc.ca>
- Organization: The Communications Research Centre
- References: <1hami4INNpbj@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1992Dec23.223832.26449@vexcel.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 23:48:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.223832.26449@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
- >In article <1hami4INNpbj@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> shreeved@ece.orst.edu (David Shreeve) writes:
- >>ted@dgbt.doc.ca (Ted Grusec) wrote:
- >>
- >>
- >>>This Bates thing has been around for 50 years that I know about, and
- >>>probably a lot longer than that. Surely, if there was something to
- >>>it, there should be lots of evidence by now. If not, why not?
- >>
- >I have no knowledge of the Bates method but I would like to point
- >out that our ability to test a theory is limited by our technology
- >and our creative perceptions. There is no reason why proof should
- >exist for a theory that is old. While its reasonable to ask for
- >that proof, its absence doesn't disprove anything.
-
-
- Look. It's really very simple. Either the Bates method can improve
- your vision or it cannot. Nothing mystical. An eye chart pre- and
- post-test is all that's needed to substantiate efficacy in this case.
- Forget the "theory". Bates proposed a training procedure over 50
- years ago. Either it substantially works or not, and its verification
- should be as straightforward as anything can be. So why has there
- been no investigation? No fancy instruments or hocu-pocus is needed
- here. It would be a very doable science project for a high school
- student. One control group (no Bates), one experimental group
- (Bates), with the two groups chosen to be as similar as possible in
- terms of degree and kinds of visual defects, and statistically
- assigned on unknown or uncontrollable variables. There is absolutely
- no reason in the world this can't be properly investigated for those
- of us that demand some simple logic.
-
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- Ted Grusec - Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
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