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Nightlight: Night Lights and Nearsightedness

Description

An Associated Press article captured the attention of readers with the headline "Night lights bad for kids?" The article was based on a 1999 study at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, in which parents were surveyed about the lighting conditions under which their children slept between birth and age 2 (lamp, night-light, or no light) and whether or not their children developed nearsightedness (myopia). The purpose of the study was to explore the effect of a young child's nighttime exposure to light on later nearsightedness.

Usage

data(Nightlight)

Arguments

format

A data frame with 479 observations on the following variables.

  • Light
{lighting conditions no light night light lamp} Nearsightedness{whether or not the subjects later became nearsighted Yes No}

References

Part of the Carnegie Mellon University Online Learning Initiative datasets.