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* * * These authors believed that the apparent association use of a night light and child’s myopia was likely because of confounding by parent’s myopia. These authors provided direct data that nearsightedness in parents is associated with the use of night light, probably to help the parents see better. And, there is data to suggest that myopia is inherited; ie if parents have it, their kids are more likely to have it. So, this is an example, where parenteral myopia confounds the relationship between night lights and child’s myopia and there is no real direct, or what we call independent, ass