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Bates explains the change in VA requirements.

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Bates explains the change in VA requirements.
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    FROM A DESCRIPTION OF VISUAL REQUIREMENTS BY DR.  BATES


    Up to 1908 the United States required normal (20/20) vision
in recruits for its military service.  In that year Bannister and
Shaw made some experiments from which they concluded that a
perfectly sharp image of the target was not necessary for good
shooting, and that, therefore, a visual acuity of 20/40 (the
equivalent in feet of 6/12 in metres), or even 20/70, in the
poorer eye only, was sufficient to make an efficient soldier.

    This conclusion was not accepted without protest, but normal
vision (20/20) had become so rare that it probably seemed to those
in authority that there was no use insisting upon it; and the
visual standard for admission to the Army was accordingly lowered
to 20/40 for the better eye and 20/100 for the poorer...

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This "change" is written into the various state DMV
requirements -- that run from 20/70 (Florida) to
20/40 for most of the other states.

But that is why the change was made.

This is good knowledge if you are working to
clear your Snellen to 20/20 -- and are at 20/40,
and wish an independent check.

Otis
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I think he means visual acuity.

Dave
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