[Relation between myopia and intelligence].

The objective of the investigation to confirm the authors experience and data from the literature that refractory myopia is as a rule associated with a higher of intelligence. In the first part one of the authors evaluated a group of 14-year-old myopic children with hypermetropia children of the same age. For evaluation she used the intelligence quotient (IQ) and assessment by teachers before the children left elementary school. The results are clearly in flavour of the myopia children. In the second part the authors evaluated the intelligence of 15-18-year-old myopic secondary school pupils as compared with their classmates. Assuring that myopia is usually associated with higher intelligence and makes thus more profound education possible, they compared the students with apprentires trained to be cooks and waiters. The myopic students won again. Arong students there were 36.8% myopic, among appretices only 8%. The mean progress of students is 1.99, of apprentices only 2.68%. The myopic students have a general better progress and better marks in mathematics than their classmates without refractory defects (1.86:2.07 and 2.14:2.39). Based on the results of the investigation the authors assume that they were able to confirm data in the literature that myopic students are on average more intelligent that their poors of the same age.