THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REFRACTIVE STATE OF THE EYE AND INTELLIGENCE TEST SCORES

Abstract

School of Optometry, University of California Berkeley, California *The present study was conducted during the Academic year 1947–1948 while the author was an assistant professor at the Ohio State University School of Optometry. A report of these data was given at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Optometry in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in December of 1948. While the data were not complex and the statistical evidence was simple and straightforward, the interpretation of the results was far from clear. The author withdrew the paper from publication to allow himself to think about the possible meaning of these results. Now, ten years later, the meaning is still not completely clear, but these results along with possible interpretations are being published so that others may use them and possibly interpret them better. Since this study was made, an attempt was made by Melvin Nadell and the present author to substantiate these findings, and this study appeared in the June, 1958, issue of this of the American Journal of Optometry and Archives of American Academy of Optometry. †Optometrist. Ph.D. Fellow, American Academy of Optometry.