it’s a hypothesis worth studying.
Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people
nyan@lemmy.cafe 4 days ago
The cause of Sophie’s APD diagnosis is unknown, but her audiologist believes the overuse of noise-cancelling headphones, which Sophie wears for up to five hours a day, could have a part to play.
Other audiologists agree, saying more research is needed into the potential effects of their prolonged use.
That looks to me like, “audiologists have no bloody clue where this issue is coming from, and are therefore throwing shit at the wall in the hope that something will stick.”
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
meco03211@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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.
TBi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
According to this articles methods we know that noise cancelling headphones kill people, since everyone who uses them dies! (Eventually and yes /s)
Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 3 days ago
If a hypothesis is untestable, then it is a guess, and not scientific.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
it’s not untestable, they just haven’t actually done it yet. In fact they say in the article research is needed.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I really struggle to process voices, but I hear absolutely everything.
Someone talking to me can get completely drowned out by a 15KHz hum of an electronic device, the acoustics of a room or a TV in the background.
Yet, I ask them if they are having trouble hearing me over all the noise. They usually reply “wharlt noise?” If it’s a high-pitch hum, they won’t acknowledge the noise even if I show them on a spectral analyser.
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Exactly.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
This is not the same thing, as the other comment explains.