Vision Test
Like many good insurance plans, mine covers a once-a-year vision exam. My cadence for this visit over the past few years has been to schedule it the last week of the year - easy to remember and just before the benefit expires. The standard eye test inevitably has you looking through an instrument called a phoropter (also called a retractor). This is the binocular looking device that you peer through as you read the eye chart and make super quick life-altering choices on visual clarity (my Deliberative friends must find this stressful). During my past few visits, my Futuristic (#3) has made an entrance by quizzing down the Optometrist Assistant about the seemingly antiquated instrument. I seem to recall looking through this same exact measurement tool in 1968. Surely with the technology of today, there would be an easier way to test our vision vs. a machine that was patented in 1921? Perhaps an APP for that? The answer has been the same. The phoropter used to