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Blue eyes, big earplugs: Bad hearing?

Light eye color and large ear-canal size may be linked to greater vulnerability to hearing loss.

 

References:

Royster, J.D., and L.H. Royster. 1998. Does eye color correlate with susceptibility to noise-induced hearing loss? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 104(September):1751.

Royster, L.H. 1998. Accounting for possible differences in population susceptibility to noise caused by variations in ear canal geometry. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 104(September):1752.

 

Sources:

Julia D. Royster
Environmental Noise Consultants
P.O. Box 30698
Raleigh, NC 27622-0698

Larry H. Royster
North Carolina State University
Box 7910
Raleigh, NC 27695-7910

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 18, October 31, 1998, p. 284.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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