Laurel or Yanny?

[RblDiver]

It's of course both. Laurel in a low frequency with Yanny overlaid in a high frequency with a bit more going on. Those that hear laurel (including myself) don't have as keen of upper frequency hearing. Which is why a lot of significant others here hear "Yanny".

It's neat, and leads me to wonder if a new hearing test couldn't be made with this technique spanning multiple frequencies and layered words - it would be much harder to fake hearing loss. (Hearing loss is an oft faked workers comp/disability injury) as instead of pretending not to hear a BEEE when they crank it up to ten and wince; you' have to know which freaking word is the correct one to say in advance...

Don't know how valid, but I remember years ago some kids saying they'd learned that there are certain audio ranges you just naturally start to lose as you get older. Thus, the kids started to use these "high" tones as their ringtones so teachers wouldn't hear their phones going off in class.

Oh, and Laurel. My hearing sucks :P

[CS1983]

What?

Foxtrot stated this method could be used for hearing tests, since it uses words instead of tones. Recorded at different frequencies, it could act as an obstacle to faking hearing loss, since you'd have to say what words you hear instead of simply yes or no on a tone. Playing them in random sequence, someone wouldn't necessarily know whether or not to not push the button (if you are trying to fake hearing loss, you might push for only low tones).

So my question is how one would circumvent continued malingering since the higher frequencies would obviously still be higher.

[CS1983]

Don't know how valid, but I remember years ago some kids saying they'd learned that there are certain audio ranges you just naturally start to lose as you get older. Thus, the kids started to use these "high" tones as their ringtones so teachers wouldn't hear their phones going off in class.

Oh, and Laurel. My hearing sucks :P

I have a dog whistle app on my phone. Wife and boys can hear things that I cannot hear at all. I'll play something and my wife is all, "Arggggghhhh stop that!" and I am just sitting there wondering deaf as a door post to the higher freqs.

[Zundfolge]

The higher frequencies are the first thing to go with hearing damage.

Considering this is a shooting forum, I'm going to bet most of us here have more damaged than average hearing.

[izzy]

Are you drunk right now?

Cracking up!

and laurel

[Irving]

Foxtrot stated this method could be used for hearing tests, since it uses words instead of tones. Recorded at different frequencies, it could act as an obstacle to faking hearing loss, since you'd have to say what words you hear instead of simply yes or no on a tone. Playing them in random sequence, someone wouldn't necessarily know whether or not to not push the button (if you are trying to fake hearing loss, you might push for only low tones).

So my question is how one would circumvent continued malingering since the higher frequencies would obviously still be higher.

Say again?

[Irving]

TINFOIL ALERT!!!

Widespread test for further subliminal messaging to steer the masses.

IBBMB


ETA: Laurel in the car on my way to work, Yanny on the Jabra conferencing speaker on my computer

This audio file is obviously going viral, so it's also obviously telling Alexas and Siris across the world to transfer $1 to a Mediterranean bank account.

[CS1983]

Say again?

Dang it. I walked right into that one.

[Irving]

It took a minute, but it was totally worth it.

[Squeeze]

Laurel.