“…The presented study is a post hoc analysis of self-reported HD and auditory and demographic characteristics of those participants with clinically normal hearing. Proposed explanations for the discrepancy between self-reported HD and audiometric thresholds include, but are not limited to, central presbyacusis, auditory disability with normal hearing, obscure auditory dysfunction, King-Kopetzky Syndrome, auditory dysacusis, auditory processing disorders, idiopathic discriminatory dysfunction, hidden hearing loss or cochlear synaptopathy, auditory neuropathy, inner hair cell damage, strial dysfunction, metabolic disorder, tinnitus, neurocognitive disorders, dyslexia, attention deficit disorder, traumatic brain injury, spatial hearing disorders, aging, dementia, cognitive decline or impairment, receptive aphasia, and Alzheimer’s disease (Beck & Danhauer 2019). The goal of this analysis was not to diagnose any of the aforementioned disorders, but to determine whether a number of demographic variables and common clinical and research measures of auditory function could explain and predict self-reported HD.…”