A new study finds that sex and environment, not just age, strongly influence hearing sensitivity in diverse human populations.
I’ve never understood why some people find these kinds of discoveries surprising. What would actually be surprising is studying differences between groups and not finding any. The key is to remember that group differences are about averages - they don’t apply to individuals. A person won’t have better hearing just because they’re a woman. The variation between individuals within a group is usually greater than the average difference between groups.
Was this written by AI?
A new study of hearing sensitivity across global populations has revealed that women consistently have more sensitive hearing than men—by about two decibels on average—regardless of age or where they live. The researchers also found that the local environment plays a significant role in shaping how our ears respond to different sound frequencies
Does environment effect hearing or not??
ZeroGPT says no way. I mean I get what they mean even if it’s a little awkwardly said. Local environment shapes your hearing. Whatever the environment, women end up two decibels more sensitive on average. That’s it.
Yeah, millennia of oppression does wonders for your genetics favoring hypervigilance in your gender, down the line…
Not how evolution works, and not how oppression works either.
One might guess men would have better hearing as they were often the hunters in our evolutionary history. But maybe women who would take care of children and the camp needed to be more aware of incoming dangers, for which good hearing would be an advantage.
As you’ve spotted, good hearing is advantageous to everyone.
However the men hunting/women gathering stereotype is increasingly regarded as wrong or at least simplistic.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-prehistoric-gender-roles-women-hunters.html
Ooh, you’re fun at parties, no doubt
Do you usually interact with people at parties the way you interact with people in the comments section of a link aggregator?
You assume I interact with people at parties?
Women can see more colors, live longer, enhanced hearing, smell better, im sure they can lift cars to save babies. Males are just there to carry the weight as pack mule apparently.
i have great news: “male” is a mostly made up term that only applies to groups, what your ID says is just just decided by some medical staff when you were born and doesn’t actually have any bearing on how your body works.
K then perks for XY then?
i have no idea what you’re trying to say
Yup i see issue. fixed it.
Basically is there any slight perks to being born xy vs xx besides size. What anyone calls it is irrelevant. Like xx hides fat better. Xy shoves it all in belly.
