Many daily headphone users disbelieve headphones cause hearing damage despite symptoms

Evidence

Fasanya and Strong (2019) surveyed 280 college students who frequently wear headphones. Forty-four percent of daily users did not believe headphones cause hearing damage despite reporting symptoms normally associated with hearing damage: 25% experienced ringing in their ears, 33% experienced trouble sleeping and 23% believed that headphones had negatively affected their academic performance. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 1705

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the broader theme of people dismissing chronic sensory harms, echoing the noise-as-blind-danger material from One Square Inch of Silence.