Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people
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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)
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So this could be boiled down to "use or lose it". Idk, maybe this might be part of it. Maybe a part of the prevalence of short form media blah blah attention span.
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Oh boy I hope not, I love noise cancelation lol. I figure it's gotta be better than upping the volume to override the noise around me.
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'Words sound like gibberish'
What? This article is confusing as hell.
I use mine a lot, but I don't have problems telling where sounds are coming from or understanding what is being said.
Tbh this just sounds like ADHD or something.
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I poked around a few other articles. A few are identical. Most are slight variations. Few are as different as these two. My guess would be that the original submission from the author or initial editor locks in a headline for the tab/title bar, but then the CMS lets them edit what appears in the main body of the webpage.
