Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people
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Next DIY project found!
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Did the boomboxes-next-to-heads and the walkmans of the '80s and discmans of the '90s not count? I think a lot of game boy users also used headhpones.
I actually didn't use them that much at all, but I still have trouble hearing with background noise. Noise-cancelling headphones have actually been an amazing thing in my life because (a) it helps overstimulation and anxiety and (b) it actually helps me hear someone talking to me because it filters out the other stuff. I suspect my problems are a combination of mostly-neurological (ADHD and probably (though not officially) ASD) and maybe impacted by loud concerts and general aging-related stuff. I can still hear really high-pitched sounds and the like whereas many of my peers around my age and younger can't as well, but it's all mud to me when there's a lot of sound.
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it's a hypothesis worth studying.
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Studying sure. But this is openly speculating to the uninformed masses. Can earphones cause cancer? Unless you can prove they don't, that is a hypothesis that could be tested. But more importantly, it's slop for clickbait bullshit so your aunt can post that to Facebook and feel superior to all the dregs giving themselves cancer by wearing earphones. It's useless.
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this isn't a hearing loss issue, the hypothesis is that noise-cancelling headphones specifically are causing our brains to not filter out random noises neurologically.
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they're not saying it's a headphones thing in general. they're saying it may be a noise-cancelling headphones thing.
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She is just an example, they say this issue is on the rise in general.
Five NHS audiology departments have told the BBC that there has been an increase in the number of young people referred to them from GPs with hearing issues - only to find their hearing is normal when tested and it is their ability to process sound that is struggling.
APD is more common in neurodivergent people, those who have suffered from a brain injury or had a middle-ear infection as a child. However, more patients with APD are presenting outside of those categories, leaving audiologists to question if external factors, such as noise-cancelling headphones, are contributing.
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they did say she was able to pay attention just fine watching lecture videos with subtitles. Also she is just an example, they said this problem is on the rise in general.
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Bad title. The article examines whether specifically noise-cancelling headphones may be involved in listening issues.
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True. They also mention the person's rural upbringing and then moving to the city. That mirrors my experience and my hearing issues pre-date using noise canceling headphones. I always had a rough time anywhere there were lots of people and noise, but it just wasn't super common previously (I grew up in rural Ohio and have lived in some big US cities.followed by nearly a decade in Tokyo).
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Yeah I keep trying to move to the woods but my wife wants to be around people for some reason lol
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eh, I don't see a problem with this article specifically, and I don't think your "cancer" hyperbole is a helpful comparison. If people feel like they are suffering from a similar listening/attention issue, there's no real harm in trying to go without noise-cancelling for a while to see if the symptoms improve.
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If a hypothesis is untestable, then it is a guess, and not scientific.
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it's not untestable, they just haven't actually done it yet. In fact they say in the article research is needed.
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The woman in the article is also just a single example. They mention that this condition is on the rise in general.
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Someone with ADHD can better focus when they get the info simultaneously as text and audio? Unbelievable! Plus it's the most over and under diagnosed disorder at the same time. Under diagnosed within women particularly. It's getting diagnosed better and more often, so it fits too.
I don't say that she has it but most neurodiverse will see lot's of checked boxes.
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I am glad to see us respect our link-aggregation heritage of ignoring the article and starting heated discussions based on what we infer from the headline.
It also seems that the headline currently on the article is different and switches out clickbait tactics from misleading omission to absurd pearl-clutching: "Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people's hearing problems?" If you combine them, you get something closer to actual content of the article.
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It also seems that the headline currently on the article is different and switches out
Both are present in the article; they don't switch out. One is the title (as you can see in the title bar of a desktop web browser) and the other is the top-level heading of the text.
Looks like Lemmy picked up the former, which makes sense considering the document structure. BBC probably should have used the same phrase in both places.
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Someone with ADHD can better focus when they get the info simultaneously as text and audio? Unbelievable!
Or... maybe she really does have APD as her doctors says she does?
I don’t say that she has it but most neurodiverse will see lot’s of checked boxes.
...because APD has some similar symptoms to ADHD.
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According to this articles methods we know that noise cancelling headphones kill people, since everyone who uses them dies! (Eventually and yes /s)
