Abstract
For persons with normal hearing who are not subjected to unusually high noise levels for any substantial length of time, there is a progressive shift of hearing threshold with age. The loss is known as “presbycusis.” Women generally fare better than men, although there is a good bit of variation in the threshold shift in the population at large.
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Harris (1979)
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Eargle, J.M. (1994). Hearing Threshold Shift as a Function of Age. In: Electroacoustical Reference Data. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2027-6_155
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