Even if we think that intelligent people, intellectuals, read more than others and that, necessarily, it tires their eyes, the answer is probably in the genes.
In 1988, studies on the links between poor eyesight and cognitive function had already shown that nearsighted people had better scores on IQ tests than others.
And in 2018, another study on intelligence and genetics was carried out at the University of Edinburgh, looking at the genome of 300,000 people aged 16 to 102.
We found, it’s incredible, that there was 28% of…
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