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The absence of lateral congruency between sighting dominance and the eye with better visual acuity.

Pointer JS

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The notion that in subjects with normal binocular vision (i.e. non-strabismic cases) the eye showing sighting dominance will also most likely be that individual's better-sighted eye has proved to be persistent. A review and analysis of the literature has now demonstrated, across several population groups, the fallacy of this belief. In fact, the occurrence of lateral congruency between sighting dominance and the eye with better visual acuity is at a statistical level no greater than chance would predict. Some clinical implications of this outcome are considered.

Published 22 January 2007 in Ophthalmic Physiol Opt, 27(1): 106-10.
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