FunkyHiFi
08-17-2010, 09:43 PM
"Can you hear me now? More teens can't"
(http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-teens-hearing-loss-20100818,0,559994.story)
Some excerpts...
......and many experts suspect they are the primary cause of hearing loss in teens.
"Personal stereos are the most important change in the culture in the last 15 to 20 years," said Dr. Tommie Robinson Jr., president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Assn. "Everybody has their own little device now, and how many times have you passed somebody and could hear their music?"The researchers found that the proportion of teens with any hearing loss rose from 14.9% in the first national survey to 19.5% in the second, while the proportion of mild or worse hearing loss rose 77%. Males were significantly more likely than females to suffer loss.....In English, soft high-frequency sounds such as "s," "f," "th" and "sh" "carry a great deal of meaning, and are very important sounds to be able to discern," Grimes said. But those are the first to be lost, especially in a noisy environment like a classroom.
And this strange finding:
For unknown reasons, children with light blue eyes are more likely to suffer hearing loss than those with other eye colors.
Nobody in the article is saying throw your player in the trash, just turn down the volume a bit.
(http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-teens-hearing-loss-20100818,0,559994.story)
Some excerpts...
......and many experts suspect they are the primary cause of hearing loss in teens.
"Personal stereos are the most important change in the culture in the last 15 to 20 years," said Dr. Tommie Robinson Jr., president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Assn. "Everybody has their own little device now, and how many times have you passed somebody and could hear their music?"The researchers found that the proportion of teens with any hearing loss rose from 14.9% in the first national survey to 19.5% in the second, while the proportion of mild or worse hearing loss rose 77%. Males were significantly more likely than females to suffer loss.....In English, soft high-frequency sounds such as "s," "f," "th" and "sh" "carry a great deal of meaning, and are very important sounds to be able to discern," Grimes said. But those are the first to be lost, especially in a noisy environment like a classroom.
And this strange finding:
For unknown reasons, children with light blue eyes are more likely to suffer hearing loss than those with other eye colors.
Nobody in the article is saying throw your player in the trash, just turn down the volume a bit.