Neither conservative nor liberal response bias yields accurate hearing thresholds
Evidence
On the other hand, an extremely liberal responder produces the opposite result: many false positives. Both types of patients can lead to inaccurate audiograms unless audiologists are able to encourage their patients to adopt a neutral criterion. Patients with conservative criteria can produce audiograms with hearing thresholds that are higher (worse) than their true hearing abilities, and the reverse can be true for those adopting liberal criteria. — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 344
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
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