20 or so was a comfortable listening level for most people who came to visit. But I couldn’t stay in the same room with him when he turned on the TV. My dad had no idea his hearing needed help. But put him in a soundproof anechoic chamber and give him a hearing test today, then do one six months from now, and I think he’d be surprised at the difference. When FPSRussia claims he’s not damaging his hearing by shooting without protection, what he’s talking about is his perception of his hearing. That’s what we call “circular logic.” You can’t justify a conclusion by saying since you perceive no bias, there’s no way your perceptions could be broken. Why? They claim that his work couldn’t be accurate, because they, themselves, aren’t biased, and since they see no bias in the media, his book couldn’t be true. While colleagues of his (from both sides of the political spectrum) have leapt to his defense, a number of people have attacked his book (both in the press and in academic circles). Now you’d think that a college professor with street cred out the wazoo would be accorded some respect, and that he work might be debated, but not assaulted. What he found is that there is bias in the media (no, DUH), but what’s interesting is that this bias has had a direct effect on how Americans think about the issues – and vote. He devised a test to detect bias in the media and rate it not just left or right, but to determine the degree. He’s an economics and political science professor at UCLA. You just get attenuated to your new, diminished capabilities.Ī friend of mine wrote a really interesting book on politics and the media. I wonder how much damage I did to my ears, forgetting those damned earplugs?” For you see, the hearing you lose doesn’t really come back, at least not all the way. Someone said, “Oh, wow…wonder when my ears will stop ringing?” But I thought, “Oh, crap. When I left the club, early Sunday morning, my ears were ringing, as were everyone else’s. Hearing loss is insidious, because it’s gradual and imperceptible. Had they issued hearing protection during WWII, they said he likely would have had far less hearing loss and might not have needed hearing aids. He hated those things with a passion he previously reserved for SPAM and K-rations. Which is exactly how he wore them to the day he died.
The difference was like that between “lightning” and “lightning bug” – he needed hearing aids in the worst way. The VA showed us the results of his hearing tests, against the median results from people his age.
As a result, there were sounds (generally, high-frequency ones) that my dad had trouble hearing. Back in the day, nobody ever thought about ear protection. His berth on the Battleship Missouri was right under the 16 in. I used to drive my daughter and her friends nuts with this, when I first got my iPhone. If you’re an iPhone owner, head over to the iTunes store and search for “Annoy a Teenager.” There are several apps that upon command, emit a high-frequency sound that’s detectable only by someone kids, teens and twenty-somethings. And your ability to hear frequencies changes as you get older. You can lose sensitivity to certain frequencies. Every time your ears are subjected to extremely loud noises, you lose a little ability to hear. But listening to loud sounds come at a cost. It can detect everything from a whisper up to the sounds of a Space Shuttle launch and not miss a beat. The human ear is a marvel of bio-engineering.
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