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Does wearing glasses mean you're smarter?
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CNN's Harry Enten tackles the question of whether wearing glasses makes someone more intelligent. In his podcast, "Margins of Error," Enten examines how the stereotypes about glasses have evolved.
As a former Bronx assistant district attorney and author of the legal article "Eye See You: How Criminal Defendants Have Utilized the Nerd Defense to Influence Jurors' Perceptions," Sarah Mariucci told me that glasses are "associated with reading, significant amounts of reading in childhood days, a nerd persona, a smart persona."
This fact has made me extremely jealous of people who wear glasses. I just had an eye exam, and, as with every earlier eye test, I was found to have perfect vision.
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