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Hidden Hearing Loss
Standard audiometric tests often miss a condition that audiologists call hidden hearing loss, a condition in which people can hear speech but struggle to understand speech in noisy settings. A standard hearing test involves measuring one's audibility of soft sounds, but to detect hidden hearing loss, speech discrimination testing is performed in the presence of various levels of competing noise.