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Limit 10 per person, may buy 10 additional as gifts. Valid in-store store and for in-store frames only. Not valid for sale items or with other offers. Valid only for a full set of frames and Rx lenses or Rx sunglasses. Must use promotional value in 1 visit. In-home fittings available for those with special needs; please call (763) 390-6268 for more information. Not valid for eye exams. Must provide prescription to redeem. Consultation required; non-candidates and other refund requests will be honored before service provided.
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The Deal
- $21 for $300 worth of prescription eyeglass and sunglass frames
####20/20 Vision: An Imperfect Ratio
Possessing
20/20 vision may be considered perfect, a level of visual acuity
reserved for Navy pilots and the bald eagles that train them, but in
fact it's not even close to average. Developed by Dutch optometrist
Hermann Snellen in the 1860s, the 20/20 standard is a somewhat arbitrary
distinction. After inventing his now-iconic eye chart—which consists of
lines of standardized letters that get progressively smaller—Snellen
also instituted the concept of a ratio to define the clarity of a
patient's vision. The denominator represents how many feet away a person
of normal visual acuity could stand while still discerning the letters
with the same level of clarity as the patient. In other words, 20/40
vision means the patient needs to stand 20 feet away to make out the
same size letters as a person with standard vision can from 40 feet.
Because
the 20/20 standard is arbitrary, many people actually have considerably
better eyesight, represented by such ratios as 20/15 or 20/10. In fact,
in the United States, the average visual acuity is sharper than 20/20
until about age 60 or 70, when people's vision naturally starts to
decline as their bangs finally grow past their eyes. Also, though it's
useful for determining basic shortcomings of vision, an eye chart can't
diagnose a proper glasses or contact prescription. To determine that,
optometrists test many other factors, including depth perception,
peripheral vision, x-ray vision, and focusing skills.