If a young person asks me for a good career to go into, I say audiology. Get into the hearing aid game cos the demand is going to go up in the next few years.
How do I know this? (you ask) Well, if you travel to work by bus each day, it is a very easy deduction to make.
At least one third of the bus is securely buttoned into their ipods. And a tidy numbers of these tuned-in people have their ear-phones rattling, hissing and shaking. Indeed, there can be people many seats away and yet this guzzling, grating and grunting of ear-phones is easy to hear over the traffic and engine noise.
Now folks, a simple deduction or three can be made.
Firstly, they are tuned into a decibel level of around ten million; whereas the threshold of pain is 140.
Secondly, a key reason for this is that the young person is already partially deaf.
And thirdly, the persons in question are prime candidates for tinnitus and early onset deafness in the prime of their pulchritude.
Now tinnitus is prove postive that silence can be very noisy. It is an intense and often very upsetting ringing in the ears. The most common cause is noise induced hearing loss.
Just how bad are ipods for your future hearing prospects? This article makes for sober reading.
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