[Red Badger]

What?.......................

[alexander_busek]

Is this difficulty in understanding human speech above background noise also known as the "Cocktail Party Effect?"

Regards,

[Karl Spooner]

The increased decibels of train horns don’t help matters any either.

[al_c]

Well, crap ...

[Secret Agent Man]

good thing for the covax takers to remember

as long as that is possible

[Arcadian Empire]

This is stupid.

It is bigotry against people who prefer peace and quiet.

[Mastador1]

I have trouble hearing in noisy and crowded surroundings but that has nothing to with Joe Biden, I am almost completely deaf in one ear and 60% in the other so have no stero hearing allowing me to tune into one voice over the many. This sounds like just one more bullshit study our tax dollars have been wasted on.

[butlerweave]

Too many years Target Shooting

[Pontiac]

In 2017, hearing loss was listed along with smoking and physical inactivity as one of nine major, modifiable risk factors of dementia. That landmark Lancet report was soon updated in 2020 to include three more risk factors, taking the total to 12.

I recall reading about a study decades ago that showed that statistically smokers had a lower incidence of Alzheimer's

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’ve had this problem since my 20s, but I always attributed it to to wearing hearing protection during fireworks, guns, race cars, metal shop, wood shop, power plants, exploding bicycle tires, bringing a sledge hammer down on a full roll of caps, front row at rock concerts. You name it, I did what I could to ruin my hearing. And it worked/

[dljordan]

Horseshit!

[Jane Long]

[bunkerhill7]

I couldnt hear my ex wife coz she was talking all the time.

[BusterDog]

Does this study account for the large increase in semi-literate mush-mouths?

[irishjuggler]

Seriously, are there really middle-aged people out there who when inserted into, say, a rock concert or an extremely crowded, noisy restaurant have no trouble at all hearing some “low talker” (cf. Seinfeld episode) in their group?? Really?

[sodpoodle]

Alzheimer’s Disease
A type of brain disorder that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior.
Parkinson’s Disease
A chronic and progressive movement disorder.
Vascular Dementia
A condition caused by the lack of blood that carries oxygen and nutrient to a part of the brain.
Lewy Body Dementia
A progressive dementia that results from protein deposits in nerve cells of brain.

IT’S CALLED ‘OLD AGE’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SauronOfMordor]

Picking out speech from background is not something your ears do, it’s something your brain does. When your brain is having problems doing that, it’s a sign of deterioration.

[sodpoodle]

Recent thread linked dementia to drinking coffee!

[wgmalabama]

I am so screwed.

[Ken Regis]

Rut-Roh

[Jim Noble]

Damn