Aging degrades listening judgment reliability despite accumulated expertise.

Evidence

I retired from the listening panel. Figure 3.6a shows my hearing performance, which could have been worse, but the hearing threshold is a crude metric, ignoring much. Now I enjoy music and movies. I still have opinions, but they are my own. It was a bitter pill. Critical listening is a young person’s game, but then only if the young person has functioning ears. — , Toole, Floyd E - Sound reproduction-…, 1802 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Age and accumulated noise exposure degrade even expert listening panel reliability; Critical listening ability declines with age even for experts — , Toole, Floyd E - Sound reproduction-…, 1802; Temporal-structure sensitivity declines with age even when audiograms remain normal. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 793 (+2 more)

Related

• Critical listening ability declines with age even for experts (similarity 0.95)
• Age and accumulated noise exposure degrade even expert listening panel reliability (similarity 0.94)
• Listener judgment reliability declines with age and accumulated noise exposure (similarity 0.92)
• Both working memory and speech-in-noise ability decline with age. (similarity 0.87)
• Hearing loss makes listener opinions unreliable no matter how experienced (similarity 0.85)
• Age-related hearing decline in noise begins while thresholds remain normal (similarity 0.83)
• Hearing loss correlates strongly with age even among listeners with clinically near-normal thresholds (similarity 0.82)
• Temporal-structure sensitivity declines with age even when audiograms remain normal. (similarity 0.82)
• Hearing sensitivity within clinically normal range still declines measurably with age (similarity 0.82)
• Aging and loud sound exposure both erode hearing from high frequencies downward (similarity 0.81)
• Even modest hearing loss increases variability in sound quality judgments (similarity 0.81)
• Early-elderly listeners show temporal sensitivity decline before audiometric loss appears. (similarity 0.80)
• Age-related temporal and level sensitivity decline precedes measurable hearing loss (similarity 0.80)
• Hearing sensitivity degrades with age and is lower in early childhood (similarity 0.80)
• Frequency selectivity, not temporal processing, drives age-related declines in Huggins-pitch thresholds. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Age and accumulated noise exposure degrade even expert listening panel reliability #corroborates (0.95)
• Critical listening ability declines with age even for experts #corroborates (0.90) — , Toole, Floyd E - Sound reproduction-…, 1802
• Hearing loss makes listener opinions unreliable no matter how experienced #expands (0.80)
• Even modest hearing loss increases variability in sound quality judgments #expands (0.80)
• Temporal-structure sensitivity declines with age even when audiograms remain normal. #expands (0.75) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 793