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minus-squareanlumo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 months agoInteresting that Chinese optometrists don’t use characters for these tests. With Chinese characters it’d probably be too unreliable I guess.
minus-squareThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoI don’t think that strategy for testing is purely a Chinese thing. When my kids were little and before they could read, they did eye tests with those same characters. And I’m in America.
Interesting that Chinese optometrists don’t use characters for these tests. With Chinese characters it’d probably be too unreliable I guess.
I don’t think that strategy for testing is purely a Chinese thing. When my kids were little and before they could read, they did eye tests with those same characters. And I’m in America.