Poll Results

Total votes: 4074

Glasses for shortsightedness: 1583 (38.9%)
No, my sight is fine: 1117 (27.4%)
Contact lenses for shortsightedness: 335 (8.2%)
Glasses for astigmatism: 211 (5.2%)
Glasses for longsightedness: 192 (4.7%)
Glasses, but I don't know what for: 160 (3.9%)
No, I should, but I hate them: 159 (3.9%)
A monocle: 126 (3.1%)
Bifocals: 91 (2.2%)
Contact lenses for longsightedness: 29 (0.7%)
Contacts, but I don't know what for: 27 (0.7%)
No, my sight is so impaired it would be silly: 25 (0.6%)
Trifocals: 19 (0.5%)

About a dozen people wrote to say that they used to, but have had laser corrective surgery, so no longer need to. :-)