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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It’s just to do with how your ears identify different frequencies.
Young people tend to be more sensitive to high frequencies (remember those anti loiter alarms that only teenagers could hear?) so can hear one aspect of the sound that older people can’t.
Older people will hear the lower frequency more prominent as the higher one isn’t being heard, resulting in hearing/perceiving a different word being said.
Science bitches  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It’s just to do with how your ears identify different frequencies.
Young people tend to be more sensitive to high frequencies (remember those anti loiter alarms that only teenagers could hear?) so can hear one aspect of the sound that older people can’t.
Older people will hear the lower frequency more prominent as the higher one isn’t being heard, resulting in hearing/perceiving a different word being said.
Science bitches "
This is interesting. Scroll down the article and there are examples of the same audio clip pitch-shifted.
At higher frequencies it's 100% Laurel to my ears. |
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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago
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"*this being the article
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/16/yanny-or-laurel-sound-illusion-sets-off-ear-splitting-arguments"
I hear Laurel on that link but there’s also something higher pitched but very faint in the background too. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Seems to depend on the device you're listening to it on.
I've heard both. I heard one on the car stereo and the other through laptop speakers."
This would support the frequency theory. |
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"*this being the article
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/16/yanny-or-laurel-sound-illusion-sets-off-ear-splitting-arguments
I hear Laurel on that link but there’s also something higher pitched but very faint in the background too. "
I heard that too. |
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