The Determination of the Threshold of Hearing

Methodological aspects of auditory threshold measurements.

“…The inter-.? threshold variability data of the present study are in excellent agreement with the findings of previous investigators (4,7,15,16). In general, inter-.?…”

An Argument for Self-Report as a Reference Standard in Audiology

“…The results of the Beasley survey were accepted as the American standard for the threshold of hearing by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Standards Association in 1951 (Glorig, 1956;Jerger, 2009). In contrast, the self-report of hearing ability has not been used to determine the presence or absence of a hearing disorder in a number of other hearing threshold surveys (Lane, 1922;Zuehl, 1922;Sivian and White, 1933;Dadson and King, 1952;Wheeler and Dickson, 1952;Hinchcliffe, 1961).…”

Symposium on Hearing Tests and their Shortcomings [Abridged]

“…This work has been described in detail elsewhere (Dadson and King, 1952) and a further investigation on 500 subjects in the same age group has recently been carried out at the Central Medical Establishment of the R.A.F. (Wheeler and Dickson, 1952). These two investigations, in both of which great care was taken over the accurate specification of all the physical factors involved, gave results in very close agreement.…”