How we keep ourselves honest.

Our standards

Claims are sourced and dated. We link to the studies, spec sheets, and sources behind our numbers — and we date our evidence, because eyewear moves fast and last year's lens launch may be this year's discontinued line.

Independence first. No brand pays for placement; no advertiser edits our words. We're attached to a real optical store in Manchester, CT, which gives us real try-ons and optician expertise — but editorial stays independent of the sales floor.

We don't diagnose. We're journalists and opticians. Our opinions are opinions, not medical diagnoses. Anything touching eye health comes with the reminder we print in every issue: talk to your eye doctor.

Corrections are fast and visible. When we're wrong, we fix it quickly and note it here — not quietly, not buried. Trust is the only currency we have.

Accountability & oversight

Editorial standards are owned by a named human. James Stone, Founder & Editor-in-Chief of 4 Eyes Club, owns the standards on this page and the corrections log below.

Written, edited, and fact-checked by a named human. All 4 Eyes Club content is written, edited, and fact-checked by James Stone, Founder & Editor-in-Chief. Pieces are produced with AI research and drafting tools under his direction, and nothing publishes without his review.

Optician oversight. Vision, lens, fitting, and measurement claims are reviewed by Audra Poach, Lead Optician at Go Optical LLC, who serves as 4 Eyes Club's Optician Oversight. That review covers product, fitting, and measurement accuracy — it is not medical diagnosis, and nothing we publish replaces your eye doctor.

Imagery

Unless a caption says otherwise, the imagery in 4 Eyes Club is illustrative artwork created for the magazine. Frames shown are not identified products, and pictured eyewear isn't captioned with a brand or model because it isn't a specific product. Real customer and store photography begins after Go Optical LLC opens on October 26, 2026 — and when we publish it, it will be credited by name.

Corrections

October 20, 2026

• Masthead and review credits (site & Issue #1). Masthead and review credits updated to name the people behind the club: James Stone (Founder & Editor-in-Chief) and Audra Poach (Optician Oversight).
• Bylines (site & Issue #1). Every article and magazine page now carries a named byline — James Stone, Founder & Editor-in-Chief — replacing the desk bylines, with matching Person author and editor credits in the article schema. Updated Oct 20, 2026.
• EssilorLuxottica Q3 2026 revenue (Issue #1, p30; Trend Radar article). We cited Q3 2025 figures as Q3 2026. Per the company's release (GlobeNewswire, Oct 20, 2026), Q3 2026 revenue rose 9.0% to €7,486 million (+7.2% at constant currency), with wearables up 20%. Both pages corrected Oct 20, 2026.
• Samsung Galaxy Glasses (Issue #1, p30; Trend Radar article). We said the glasses "shipped" on July 22, 2026. They were unveiled at Galaxy Unpacked that day; launch is expected in November 2026, with no price announced. Corrected Oct 20, 2026.
• Even Realities G2 price and award (Issue #1, p30; Trend Radar article). We listed the G2 at $399 with a CES Innovation Award. The G2 is $599 and won a 2026 IFA Innovation Award — as our own p32 already had it. Corrected Oct 20, 2026.
• Round 8 fix pass. A retailer-blog citation (LAKOH) that survived on magazine p. 25 was removed and the passage re-attributed to MIDO’s official 2026 briefing; p. 31’s on-page correction note now reads Oct 20, 2026, matching this log; the survey page’s last unscoped claim (“the question nobody in eyewear has measured”) was rewritten to a scoped one. Oct 20, 2026.
• New York court smart-glasses ban (Trend Radar article; Issue #1, p31). We described the ban as covering "camera glasses" and framed audio-only glasses as a privacy workaround. The Unified Court System's July 2026 memo bans any eyewear that can record video or audio — camera, microphone or computer inside — so audio-only models are prohibited too. Both pieces corrected Oct 20, 2026, now citing the memo directly.
• Connecticut payroll figures (data story). Our first version reported payroll growth in nominal dollars only. Adjusted for CPI-U inflation (+28.7%, 2014–2023), total payroll is up about 21% in real terms and payroll per employee is down about 5%. The story now states both, with the CPI-U series added to its sources. Clarified Oct 20, 2026.
• Privacy policy (site). The policy didn't describe our email setup accurately. It now states that Kit stores signup emails on our behalf, that Kit's form loads a Cloudflare security cookie (__cf_bm), and that every club letter carries a one-click unsubscribe link. Updated Oct 20, 2026.
• Emphasis rendering (Issue #1, multiple pages). Single-asterisk emphasis in our sources — including the "Talk to your eye doctor" notes across Lens Lab — rendered as literal asterisks. The page builder now converts it properly. Fixed Oct 20, 2026.
• Page titles (Issue #1). Eleven page titles were mangled by headline casing (among them "Indie brands i", "Glossary a–m", "Know your pd", "Spend the fsa"). Fixed in the builder and page sources Oct 20, 2026.
• Face-shape diagram (Issue #1, p7; homepage). The diagram had no labels and showed cat-eye frames on the heart face, contradicting our own guidance in the same section. It now labels all four face shapes and pairs the heart face with bottom-heavy frames. Corrected Oct 20, 2026.
• On-page correction notes (Issue #1, pp37–39 and p98). These pages were corrected on Oct 19 (see below) but didn't carry the on-page correction note their sibling pages have. Notes added Oct 20, 2026.
• Issue #0 framing (site). Our welcome statement described frame testing and hand-fitting in the present tense, before the store opens. Reframed honestly: that hands-on work begins when Go Optical LLC opens on October 26, 2026. Updated Oct 20, 2026.
• Store fittings path (homepage; Frame Finder). Added a fittings and try-ons call-to-action for Go Optical LLC (Manchester, CT, from Oct 26, 2026) to the homepage and the Frame Finder hub. Added Oct 20, 2026.
• Reader surveys (site). Our privacy policy gained a "Surveys and research" section naming Tally (tally.so) as the processor for reader surveys, what we collect, and how responses are reported and removed — published before the first survey (the Glasses Habits Survey 2026) launched, per our research program's consent rules. Added Oct 20, 2026.
• Q3 news brief correction (EssilorLuxottica). Our October 20 news brief described wearables as "a fifth of the growth story." The company's Q3 2026 release reports a 20% revenue increase for wearables and does not state a share of revenue or growth. The brief was corrected the same day and carries a dated correction note explaining the error. Corrected Oct 20, 2026.
• Round 9 citation audit (site-wide). Secondary citations were replaced with primary sources across the site. Magazine pages 33, 41–49, 69, 71–74, 78 and 79 now carry linked primary sources (ZEISS, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Cochrane via PubMed, Cleveland Clinic, the IRS, the EssilorLuxottica and Warby Parker annual reports, The Vision Council). Unsourced claims found in the same pass were corrected with dated notes on their pages: p. 33 (Apple glasses “multi-AI” corrected to Siri and Apple Intelligence per the reporting), p. 41 (Trivex origin corrected to PPG’s military “visual armor” material), p. 42 (UV-blocking claim narrowed), p. 44 (“most returned lens” superlative removed), p. 45 (blink-rate figure softened to the evidence), p. 46 (photochromic timing figures softened pending manufacturer verification), p. 47 (an unverifiable teleoptometry statistic removed), pp. 69 and 71 (online-growth figures replaced with The Vision Council’s measured share — about one in seven US glasses purchases), p. 72 (PD rights corrected to the FTC Eyeglass Rule; photo-PD accuracy softened), p. 73 (Warby Parker insurance share corrected to 8.3% of 2025 revenue per its Form 10-K), p. 78 (EssilorLuxottica scale figures replaced with its reported 17,750 stores and €28.5B 2025 revenue), p. 79 (Prada eco-eyewear claim removed — Re-Nylon is not an eyewear line), p. 80 (photo-PD accuracy softened). Elsewhere: the About page’s source list dropped USA Today, Engadget and an optometry-practice blog in favor of manufacturers’ and the FDA’s own pages; the myopia guide replaced a trade report and a market-research firm with the ZEISS launch release and the AAO clinical statement (Holden et al.); the trend article and p. 30 now cite EssilorLuxottica’s FY2025 release for the 7M+ AI-glasses figure, and two sub-claims it does not support were deleted; the face-shape guide dropped an All About Vision link for which no primary source exists — the measurement convention it covered stands as standard industry practice. The archived Oct 20 newsletter line claiming “nobody has ever measured” fit problems was corrected to a scoped claim with an archivist’s note (the email itself had already been sent and cannot be edited). The sunglasses guide’s “bring them by” line was rewritten so it no longer implies an in-store UV-testing service. Two earlier entries here were also corrected: the sources entry now correctly places p. 63 in Style & Culture, and the headline-casing fix is now fully applied (p. 49 reads “Thin Is In”). Footer links to the Survey, Letters, Facebook and the Magazine were restored on all magazine pages, and article URLs are now clean (no .html). Completed Oct 20, 2026.
• Critique fix pass (site-wide). Following our latest full critique: author bylines now appear on all 100 magazine pages; every blog article displays its full publication date and an "Updated Oct 20, 2026" line; the fact-dense Trend Radar and Lens Lab magazine pages (pp. 30–32, 35–40), the Style & Culture page 63, and the Frame Finder fit pages (pp. 17, 20) carry linked primary sources; and secondary-source citations — retailer blogs, aggregators, and an unverifiable sustainability statistic attributed to McKinsey — were replaced with primary releases or removed where no primary source could be verified. Updated Oct 20, 2026.

October 19, 2026

• Quiz scoring (Issue #1, p95). The scoring key and result types existed in our source files but were dropped by the page builder, so the published results page had no scoring at all. Fixed Oct 19: the scoring key and all four result archetypes (Minimalist, Maximalist, Classicist, Futurist) now display in full, with frame recommendations.
• Issue #0 promise (site). Issue #0 promised a holiday gift guide and community try-on threads in Issue #1. They didn't make it; both are now scheduled for Issue #2. The Issue #0 page was updated Oct 19 to say so.
• Live translation languages (Issue #1, p31). Corrected the Meta Glasses live-translation figure to 20 languages.
• Editor's letter (Issue #1, p4). Rewritten to match the shipped issue — it previously described the issue as fit-only; the debut covers fit, trends, lenses, pricing, craft, and smart glasses.
• Issue #2 tease (Issue #1, p98). The "Fit Science" tease duplicated Issue #1's fit coverage. Replaced with the Holiday Gift Guide and community try-on threads, matching the Issue #2 plan.
• Frame-ID desk (Issue #1, p52). Reworded to reconcile with our About page: the desk is powered by and run out of our real Manchester store, not "without a store attached."
• Lens Lab precision (Issue #1, pp37–39). Stellest: added the FDA indication (ages 6–12, −0.75 to −4.50 D). MyoActive: the 0.60 D figure is now stated as 12-month data.
• Matsuda specifics (Issue #1, pp54/87). Film heritage now names the frames and wearers: the 2809 worn by Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor) in Terminator 2, the M3023 worn by Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man. Added the Fukui history nuance: eyewear-making began June 1, 1905 in Asouzu (now part of Fukui City); Sabae became the cluster's center later.
• Cover (Issue #1). Corrected pricing/printing copy and removed unverified story lines from the cover.

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