Does the Color of your Eyes affect your eyes vision or sight?
Please help me, I need to do a background research about this and I don't know anything about eyes.
THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!
*SCIENCE FAIR* ¡¡!!HELP!!¡¡
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Re: *SCIENCE FAIR* ¡¡!!HELP!!¡¡
Hi,
The evidece linking eye color and vision appears tenuous. Here are some websites on the topic:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/health/20real.html
See question 675
http://www.cis.rit.edu/mcsl/outreach/fa ... tnum=0#675
http://www.enotes.com/biology/q-and-a/d ... ion-124457
http://starklab.slu.edu/eyecolor1.htm
Here ares cience fair projects on the topic:
http://www.odec.ca/projects/2005/sull5d0/public_html/
http://www.usc.edu/CSSF/History/2005/Projects/J1017.pdf
It appears to me that the most probable answer is there is little or no effect of eye color on vision, but I have not found an answer that I trust.
Best wishes for a successful project.
Barrett L. Tomlinson
The evidece linking eye color and vision appears tenuous. Here are some websites on the topic:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/health/20real.html
See question 675
http://www.cis.rit.edu/mcsl/outreach/fa ... tnum=0#675
http://www.enotes.com/biology/q-and-a/d ... ion-124457
http://starklab.slu.edu/eyecolor1.htm
Here ares cience fair projects on the topic:
http://www.odec.ca/projects/2005/sull5d0/public_html/
http://www.usc.edu/CSSF/History/2005/Projects/J1017.pdf
It appears to me that the most probable answer is there is little or no effect of eye color on vision, but I have not found an answer that I trust.
Best wishes for a successful project.
Barrett L. Tomlinson
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MelissaB
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Re: *SCIENCE FAIR* ¡¡!!HELP!!¡¡
Just to add to that, you might want to consider looking up the condition called snow blindness. It was common knowledge where I grew up that blue eyes were more easily blinded by glare off of the snow than brown eyes--but I don't know if there is any scientific basis for that idea.

