title: Disabled stereopsis may be the norm among well-educated people.
abstract: Most well-educated people, where the author lives, have lost the ability to perceive the third dimension in space during everyday life. This has passed unnoticed because poor depth perception is not a serious handicap in an urban environment and because clinical depth perception tests have not been designed to detect this deficit. The author's hypothesis is that disabled stereopsis is a global phenomenon. A simple way of testing for disabled stereopsis is presented, in the hope that investigators in other parts of the world will test a sample of their local population and send the results to the author.
authors.affiliation: Ecole d'Optométrie, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: W L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Larson
mesh_terms: D003867:Depth Perception; D004493:Education; D006801:Humans; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population