Re: Hearing Loss "False Positives"

[Jeffrey Willson <willsonj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you're misreading this.  The paper says that a reasonable statistical model reveals that the method used in previous studies will find roughly 10% of children with normal hearing to have a measured hearing loss that isn't real.  You subtract that from the 14.9% figure and you get less than 5% of children with high-frequency hearing loss, and probably the majority of these are from causes other than loud noises.

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:58 AM, reinifrosch@xxxxxxxxxx <reinifrosch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear Kevin,

From a non-professional: 10 percent of 14.9 percent is about 1.5 percent; that leaves 13.4 percent of teenagers with hearing loss, which is still frightening. From "Molecular Biology of the Cell", Part V, Chapter 22: "Auditory Hair Cells Have to Last a Lifetime".

Reinhart. 

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Would anyone in the professional community care to comment on this?

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A new study from the University of Minnesota says that we're overestimating the amount of teens with hearing loss. 
http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2010/UR_CONTENT_254452.html

Thanks in advance.

Kevin