8 points

Me: One?

Optometrist: Wrong! How dare you! Get out of my sight!

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I hate when you get it wrong and they poke your eyeball.

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My guy doesn’t do this except for a quick sanity check. Or maybe because patients expect it? They have your prescription the second you look in the auto focusing machine. Hell, someone invented a lens for a cell phone that does it.

The optometrist is looking at your eyeball health and related medical issues. The clicky thing is mostly performative.

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Hi I’m an ophthalmologist. The auto refraction is good for a baseline, but the manifest refraction is necessary for the best prescription. Also lots of things can affect the auto refraction like dry eyes, cataracts, and macular degeneration.

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2 points

In my case, the autofocus machine is taken as first result, but astigmatism and axis rotation are still relevant.

So not true. They can test more with the lenses

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19 points

If it isn’t obvious, you’re done. The weaker of the 2 lenses is right for you.

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49 points

If you don’t see a difference, you are already very close to the optimal correction and a subtle change in either direction is unnecessary. They will still go ahead and try fine-tuning the prescription and when you tell them that A and B are the same, they can fall back when they add another correction. A and B might currently be the same, but if you add C, A+C could be better than B+C.

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36 points

The joke is that it’s missing one switch so 2 becomes 1 and 1 becomes 2

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13 points

I feel like most replies have missed this fact.

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