Talk:Blinking

message: Fascinating and insightufl, this article is everything the Wikipedia should aspire to be. --Squirminator2k 14:29, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: The Journal of Modern Vision Science appears to be a small, new, non-peer-reviewed publication.  This should be noted or possibly the link should be removed?   64.140.82.50 15:21, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  JMVS reference? 

message: Removed: 
:However, there is an established gender difference in inhibition of the startle response blink:  men (and lesbian women) manifest greater inhibition of the reflex than heterosexual women (Q. Rahman et al., 2003, Behavioral Neuroscience). 
Wikipedia cannot repeat each and every statement published by a researcher. The claim of Rahman is contested by other scientists, see e.g., [here] the statistics is questioned. Here is  stated that Rahman in his small study of 15 + 15 persons  didn't take into an account of other factors known to significantly influence blinking, e.g., smoking habits.  
In any case, one cannot convert encyclopedia into scientific debate. A single journal article is insufficent  for verifiability.  `'mikka (t) 23:08, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  sexual orientation 

message: Well it may sound odd but there is a spell called Blink that more or less teleports the caster a small distence in a random directon. I don't know if Wikipedia should have it, but I feel that it should. The spell can be seen in games such as Warcraft III, D&D and others.Nefzen 21:22, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spell 

message: Thanks for the image Silversmith--it looks great in the article! Baleyp 04:50, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: There are no links available for the muscles within the eyelid.  If anyone was interested in creating an article for these muscles it would be a great opportunity and would really help this article!  Just a suggestion to anyone looking for some article ideas.  I think that your idea for a drug analysis sounds interesting david.  Baleyp 04:53, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Needing Info

message: I have a book called "Can Cows Walk Down Stairs?", edited by Paul Heiney (2005, ) which is a compendium of answers to questions.  I shall recite here verbatim:
"Q: Why do we blink?
A: There is more to blinking than meets the eye.  Clearly, we have to blink to cleanse and moisten the eye: each time the eyelids close, salty secretions from the tear glands are swept over the surface of the eye, flushing away small dust particles and lubricating the exposed portion of the eyeball.  Normally we blink every four to six seconds, but in irritating conditions such as a smoke-filled room we blink more frequently to keep the eyes clean and moist.  
However, we blink more often than we need to, if blinking were just about keeping the corneas of our eyes moist and clear.  Infants only blink once every minute or so, but adults blink an average of ten to fifteen times a minute.  Scientists now think this is all to do with the gathering of information, because experiments have shown that we blink less when information is coming at us thick and fast, and we blink more often when we are not taking much in.
 
Blinks are like punctuation marks of the mind, signaling a pause in the activity in your head.  If we are reading interesting material, we blink an average of three to eight times per minute, as opposed to fifteen times a minute when we are not engaged in attention-demanding activity.  We are also most likely to blink as our eyes shift from one page of text to the next, or from the end of a line of text to the beginning of the next line.
 
Any single blink isn't always like the next.  Scientists have shown that frequency and duration vary under different conditions.  RAF pilots flying simulators over 'friendly' territory have been shown to blink more frequently and to keep their eyelids closed for longer than when flying over 'enemy' territory.  Pilots blink the least when they have been spotted by enemy radar and are attempting to find and evade missiles, or when landing and aircraft."
Is there any evidence of this on the net or other books? Thisnamestaken (talk) 21:51, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Brain Pauses

message: The article says that blinking is a voluntary act. But I think it's more correct to say that it is a semi-voluntary act... like breathing, for example, because we don't "remember" every time that we have to blink, but it is an automatic action, that we can control if we want. Isn't this right?--Sid-Vicious (talk) 22:40, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Voluntary or semi-voluntary

message: I may be mistaken, but truly reflex blinks last less than 100ms (50 to 80 on average). It may be that "forced" or controled blinks last longer (even then, 400ms sounds improbable), but they are probably not explained bythe same processes. Blink duration is a very important question, as it is often used as a measure of attention and sleepiness. This requires clarification.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.59.147.183 (talk) 15:13, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duration of blinks 

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message: The #2 cited reference isn't useful since it's an opinion-survey with leading questions with incorrectly fixed answers. The "correct" answers are obviously altered to match the expected results, not the actual results of the survey.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mduvigneaud (talk • contribs) 06:43, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cited References 

message: If anyone is able to add to this by talking about when people blink to convey info such as passive aggression that'd be good Farleigheditor (talk) 16:48, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultural blinking 

message: The article mentions differences between males and females but calls them genders. I'd like to avoid the argument whether there exists biologically meaningful categories to describe homo sapiens sapiens sexual characteristics. (My opinion is there are, but they are aren't only of two categories; there're many exceptions). I checked the abstracts of the two cited articles on gender differences. First, they're primary research - I question them as authoritative. They also are small studies of demographically biased samples. The real issue is that both do NOT use the terms "male" and "female" unlike this article. Both use the terms "men" and "women" - which in my opinion (and, I believe, the current (WEIRD) public majority's opinion) are gender categories (not sex). I am going to change the terms used here from male and female to the correct (politically correct, also) men's and women's. I highly doubt the researchers checked the subjects DNA, hormones, or genitals to determine their sexes, making the studies of two adult gender groups: men and women.40.142.183.146 (talk) 22:24, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gender