Zero false positives during threshold testing signals feigned hearing loss

Evidence

Patients following appropriate instructions are expected to provide some false positives during threshold testing. The complete absence of false positives can be indicative of false hearing loss. — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1763

Categorization

• CANDY: A delightfully counterintuitive nugget: the perfectly ‘reliable’ patient is the suspicious one.