Apple Hearing Study Suggests An Estimated 1 in 3 Americans Are Regularly Exposed to Excessive Noise

[_Spinn_]

I think every time I’ve been alerted I was wear hearing protection.

 

[genovelle]

Makes sense... many people are simply not educated on this matter because it's inconvenient... but hearing loss can be permanent...

From some of the comments they may be willfully ignorant.

 

[redheeler]

Probably inaccurate since every time I wash my hands (which my Apple Watch can detect) and use a hand dryer immediately after, my watch thinks my eardrums are being blown out.

You’d think it would be logical to disregard “loud noises” for at least 30-60 seconds after handwashing has been detected.

My favorite is when clicking buttons or tapping on the Watch itself causes the noise reading to spike due to the reading being taken from the built-in microphone.

So maybe this is a map of the percentage of people who frequently use their Watch...

 

[George Dawes]

Always thought these inner ear headphones were asking for trouble

I’ve had tinnitus over 30 years , they said it’d get better and eventually go away

It hasn’t ,yet another reason to mistrust our wonderful medical establishment

 

[Vlad Soare]

Probably inaccurate since every time I wash my hands (which my Apple Watch can detect) and use a hand dryer immediately after, my watch thinks my eardrums are being blown out.

You’d think it would be logical to disregard “loud noises” for at least 30-60 seconds after handwashing has been detected.

What's inaccurate? Those hand driers are unbelievably loud. They do blow your eardrums out indeed, as well as everybody else's over a one-mile radius.

 

[chucker23n1]

My favorite is when clicking buttons or tapping on the Watch itself causes the noise reading to spike due to the reading being taken from the built-in microphone.

So maybe this is a map of the percentage of people who frequently use their Watch...

I just tried, and tapping it regularly increases noise to ~50 dB. Tapping it very hard increases it to ~65 dB. I don’t know that you can tap it hard enough to make it approach ~100 dB.

 

[sunman42]

Thats called traffic. Car noise is especially detrimental to human ears.

You mean internal combustion engine-powered car noise, right?

 

[acorntoy]

Like my neighbors upstairs doing the horizontal polka every night. 😑

Do you live in a dorm?!

 

[dork]

You mean internal combustion engine-powered car noise, right?

I was literally just wondering this morning whether that high pitched whine that electric cars (including mine) make poses any long term hearing risk. I guess we'll find out in 20 years.

 

[Vlad Soare]

I was literally just wondering this morning whether that high pitched whine that electric cars (including mine) make poses any long term hearing risk. I guess we'll find out in 20 years.

I'm sure it doesn't pose any hearing risk, but boy is it hideously repulsive. Every time such a wheeled Kitchenaid drives past me, that disgusting whine makes me want to puke.

You mean internal combustion engine-powered car noise, right?

Not necessarily. You'd think electric motors would make cars so much quieter, but actually they don't. Once you're past 10 mph or so, tyre noise takes over. And from 50-60 mph onwards it's the aerodynamic noise that's louder than everything else. EVs are only a bit quieter when they are stopped at a traffic light or in a traffic jam, but once they start moving it's game over.

Of course, I'm talking about mainstream cars that ordinary Joes are driving, not massive V8 engines with modified sports exhausts.