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Many people like to argue for political reasons that IQ tests are meaningless or fundamentally flawed. One of the typical arguments, repeated in the article, is that the questions on a test require some cultural background and a smart person can fail them if they were raised in a different culture.

Following a similar line of reasoning, we could say that the vision test your optometrist administers requires the cultural context, after all if you were raised in a culture that uses cyrillic then you might not recognize some characters, and you would fail the test even if your vision was 20/20! Therefore, all vision tests are flawed, and the very concept of vision acuity is meaningless.



At this point in the conversation, I believe I'm supposed to accuse you of being oculonormative and suggest that you are blinded by your Visual Privilege. Would this be helpful? [y/N]




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