1992/12/19 by B. Simkin · 6 citations
Medicine · Neuroscience · #Art #Computer science #Literature #MOZART #Neuroscience and Music Perception #Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments #Whipple's Disease and Interleukins
paper · pdf · doi:10.1136/bmj.305.6868.1563
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loss in this study, previous work has been descriptive in nature, presenting the numbers of cases of hearing loss, presumed to have been noise induced or comparing hearing levels with reference populations.'7-8 Both these descriptive methods have shortcomings: the former depends on the definition of noise induced hearing loss, and the latter depends on identifying a well matched reference population. Neither method of presentation is amenable to the necessary statistical testing. We believe that our method is suitable for estimating the risk of hearing loss in classical musicians as it does not depend on identifying cases but uses internal comparisons. Unfortunately, the numbers available limited the statistical power, but other orchestras might be recruited to an extended study.