re eye dominance nyeda cnsvax uwec edu david nye writes reply to rsilver world std com richard silver is there a right eye dominance eyedness as there is an overall right handedness in the population i mean do most people require less lens corrections for the one eye than the other if so what kinds of percentages can be attached to this thanks there is an eyedness analogous to handedness but it has nothing to do with refractive error to see whether you are right or left eyed roll up a sheet of paper into a tube and hold it up to either eye like a telescope the eye that you feel more comfortable putting it up to is your dominant eye refractive error is often different in the two eyes but has no correlation with handedness david nye nyeda cnsvax uwec edu midelfort clinic eau claire wi this is patently absurd but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities bertrand russell what do you mean more comfortable putting it up to that seems a bit hard to evaluate at least for me it is stare straight point with both hands together and clasp so that only the pointer fingers are pointing straight forward to a a spot on the wall about eight feet away first stare at the spot with both eyes open now close your left eye now open your left eye now close your right eye now open your right eye if the image jumped more when you closed your right eye you are right eye dominant if the image jumped more when you closed your left eye you are left eye dominant deantha
