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Study confirms women have better hearing than men
Not The Bee ^ | April 01, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 04/01/2025 1:20:53 PM PDT by Red Badger

Just something fun to cleanse your timeline:

Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill · Follow “[W]omen consistently have more sensitive hearing than men - by about two decibels on average - regardless of age or where they live… The researchers suggest that this may reflect a universal biological trait rather than a culturally specific pattern.”

You weren't imagining those mom superpowers. She really does have spidey senses.

The study was led by Dr. Patricia Balaresque from France's Centre for Biodiversity and Environmental Research in Toulouse and was published in Scientific Reports. It looked at 448 people across five countries and measured how the inner ear responds to sound through a technique used in newborn hearing screenings.

Scientists can measure an "echo" from your ear called "Transient-Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions" that indicates how the hairs in your cochlea respond to brief sounds, like a click or a snap.

Women's ears were a bit perkier.

In the population-based model (a), for amplitude metrics, strong contrasts were observed between population pairs, particularly those including Amerindian populations ... Sex also contributed significantly, explaining around 2 dB differences between men and women. Age sub-classes showed estimates ranging from 1.4 to 3 dB, with notable homogeneity observed between the youngest (18 - 25 and 25 - 35 years) and oldest (35 - 45 and 45 - 55 years) age groups, suggesting significant age-related trends...

So husbands, next time you fail at listening to your wife, just sit her down and say, "Don't be angry, honey, I'm just at a biological disadvantage."

I'm sure that'll go over REALLY WELL.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: hearing; lol; women
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1 posted on 04/01/2025 1:20:53 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

What?


2 posted on 04/01/2025 1:22:40 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: Red Badger

Talk about bad advice!


3 posted on 04/01/2025 1:23:15 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Red Badger

It’s to compensate for the fact they never stop talking.


4 posted on 04/01/2025 1:23:32 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Red Badger

True. The wife is always telling me to turn the TV volume down. Ten years as an Army artilleryman doesn’t help much. Twelve with the high frequency helicopters made it worse.


5 posted on 04/01/2025 1:24:49 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you're an average "middle American", white supremacist Sen. Chrissy Coons called you stupid.)
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To: Red Badger

From my favorite T-shirt:

My wife says I only have two faults:
1) I don’t listen
2) Something else


6 posted on 04/01/2025 1:25:09 PM PDT by econjack
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To: Red Badger

They have better memories as well.


7 posted on 04/01/2025 1:26:30 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I can promise I can land any plane that is in the air, because gravity only moves in one direction.)
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To: Red Badger

As a kid I’d very quietly open the refrigerator door and my mother an entire house and multiple rooms away would yell, “Get out of that refrigerator!” Then, one day, I was in my room, and she yelled, “Get out of that refrigerator!” I thought, humm. Maybe she’s on a timer. So, shaking with withdrawal I stayed away from the refrigerator. Then, right on the hour, “Get out of that refrigerator!” Ha! I figured it out.


8 posted on 04/01/2025 1:27:30 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: Red Badger

i remember when you said that you were leaving me, how it shocked me so much, i turned down the sound on the tv.

She said something about not communicating, or something of that sort,

then she packed up her bags and walked out the door.


9 posted on 04/01/2025 1:28:27 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Jonty30

My wife’s memory is so good, she remembers things that never happened!.....................


10 posted on 04/01/2025 1:28:48 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

my favorite excuse when wifey tell me things I don’t care about. especially when I’m walking away and she’s trying to get my attention... but I can’t hear what she’s saying.


11 posted on 04/01/2025 1:30:10 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: Qwapisking

That’s one of the advantages of ging deaf.

I can turn off my hearing aides................


12 posted on 04/01/2025 1:31:20 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I had a hearing test and everything was fine but there was a noticeable weakness on the right side in one frequency range.

Turns out this is the same frequency at which my girlfriend complains about my driving.


13 posted on 04/01/2025 1:32:35 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Red Badger

Not in my experience.


14 posted on 04/01/2025 1:32:49 PM PDT by enumerated (M81 million votes my ass)
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To: Jonty30

Not in my experience


15 posted on 04/01/2025 1:33:56 PM PDT by enumerated (M81 million votes my ass)
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To: Red Badger

Not at our house. My husband has much better hearing than I...unless I am talking.


16 posted on 04/01/2025 1:34:30 PM PDT by madison10 (God chose President Trump. Satan chose judges and Democrats.)
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To: Red Badger

Men are around loud noises more often, at least since the industrial age. This has an effect on hearing. How is this controlled for? It makes sense that woman would have more acute hearing but there are environmental factored that may play into it here.


17 posted on 04/01/2025 1:35:02 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: Red Badger

Men just pretend they can’t hear.


18 posted on 04/01/2025 1:35:26 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Red Badger

Uh we just pretend we dont hear

shhh!


19 posted on 04/01/2025 1:37:21 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: Red Badger
Most women don't work in heavy industry alongside powerful and noisy machinery.

20 posted on 04/01/2025 1:39:12 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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