Wednesday, June 19, 2013

What does 20/20 vision mean?

During an eye test, eye doctors use eye charts to measure how well you see in the distance, compared with other human beings. The eye chart displays letters of progressively smaller size and it compares a person's vision to the that of the average for the population. "Normal" vision is 20/20. This means that the test subject sees the same line of letters at 20 feet that a normal person sees at 20 feet. 20/40 vision means that the test subject see as 20 feet what a normal person sees at 40 feet.
20/20 means that the person whose vision is being tested is normal.