The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And while until recently, we thought about partial hearing loss as really something that accompanies aging, it turns out that for various reasons related to loud environments, the use of headphones, et cetera, progressive subtle hearing loss is occurring much earlier in people's lives, even as early as childhood.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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There's certainly concerns that young people are farther along on that trajectory to hearing loss than people from older generations were at a comparable age. Um just because there's, you know, the earbuds are in from morning to night and volume turned up loud enough to block out surrounding sound.