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When my son was three, we enrolled him in a study of a vision condition that runs in my family. They wanted us to put an eyepatch on him for part of each day, with a little sensor object that went under the patch and detected body heat to record when we were doing it. They paid for his first pair of glasses and all the eye doctor visits to check up on how he was coming along, plus every time we brought him in we got fifty bucks in Amazon gift credit.
I reiterate, he was three. (To begin with. His fourth birthday occurred while the study was still ongoing.)
So he managed to lose or destroy more than half a dozen pairs of glasses and we had to start buying them in batches to minimize glasses-less time while waiting for each new Zenni delivery. (The [...]
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March 20th, 2025
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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yRJ5hdsm5FQcZosCh/intention-to-treat
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When my son was three, we enrolled him in a study of a vision condition that runs in my family. They wanted us to put an eyepatch on him for part of each day, with a little sensor object that went under the patch and detected body heat to record when we were doing it. They paid for his first pair of glasses and all the eye doctor visits to check up on how he was coming along, plus every time we brought him in we got fifty bucks in Amazon gift credit.
I reiterate, he was three. (To begin with. His fourth birthday occurred while the study was still ongoing.)
So he managed to lose or destroy more than half a dozen pairs of glasses and we had to start buying them in batches to minimize glasses-less time while waiting for each new Zenni delivery. (The [...]
---
First published:
March 20th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yRJ5hdsm5FQcZosCh/intention-to-treat
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
  continue reading

508 episodes

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