At Last!
According to the CBC today, the University of Melbourne's Centre for Eye Research (and published in the March Issue of Investigative Opthamology and Visual Science) declared there is NO link between nerdiness and wearing glasses.
The study (and yes, you can read it here:
http://www.iovs.org/current.shtml#top) not only indicates that people who wear glasses are NOT automatically by definition, nerds, but...
researchers found a small but "significant" association between glasses-wearing and agreeable personalities. (Only in twins, mind you, but we four-eyes will take what we can get.)
So there you have it. Glasses do not a nerdling make.
But -- uh -- maybe someone should have told this 15 year old ...
~kc
6 comments:
Ah, yes...I have a similar picture. It's not the glasses that make the nerd but the short hair + glasses combo that do it.
I had that combo and a perm around that age. Imagine.... :)
Dear Karen,
It's me, Stephanie.
OMGosh! You are so cute! (Then and Now!) At least you had cool glasses--I did not. I finally got contacts, wore them for a million, then did the lasik thing two years ago. It's nice to see my feet when I'm taking a shower!
Hey Trudy,
The year after this photo was taken, I had a 'stack' perm - ugh.
Definite nerd material, sad to say.
~kc
Hey Lottery Girl,
I did the contact thing for many years, but now my glasses hide (mostly) my baggy eyes, so not such a bad thing! But I can't see my feet in the shower....
~kc
I LOVE that photo! What a cute kid. Not nerdy at all, but then again, that's coming from a true nerd.
Dearest NW,
My sister just sent it to me. She likes to keep things real...
~kc
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