Korean adolescents have a higher prevalence of hearing loss compared to their counterparts in our home countries (at least according to studies Ive read). https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0209254The miced volume at school assemblies is so loud. Also sometimes the volume on classroom speakers are turned up to the max (if say there is a listening test). Im worried about the kids. Maybe knowledge about how loud noises can cause hearing loss (which often isnt bad until years down the road) isnt sufficiently thought about or widespread. More public education is needed.
Or you know, it's years of listening to loud rock music and playing the guitar or spending every Friday night at some loud hip-hop club whatever or a bunch of nights playing Call of Duty or whatever and constant simulated gunfire and explosions going off through your amped up speakers. But I'm sure no one here does any of that.
Don't be a douchebag, that's all I'm going to say.
Could it be the kids or guy at mart screaming into mic guy? Sure. Its also just as likely the things I listed above.
I'm so glad I'm not you. What happened to make you such a snarly, difficult person? I can only imagine. Everything you say just reeks of negativity and bitterness. No one wrote that Korea was to blame for their ear pain, just one contributing factor. We live here...can't really say it's the Mongolians that talk too loudly.
You don't know the habits of other people. To come out guns blazing with this "It could very well be your irresponsible habits, maybe it's not the kids" BS is presumptuous and insulting to say to a bunch of educated adults.
If someone opens up about their struggle with cancer are you going to "Well, maybe you should've watched your diet" or are you going to be respectful?
I know you've got a very strong pro-Korea stance and that's fine, but you're seriously pushing it now and being a giant assh*le in the process.
If I were you I'd be a man and apologise for being so insensitive. That's just my opinion.
Well first off, someone did (L I).
Second off, this doesn't have anything to do with Korea. It has to do with occupation vs. recreation and leaping to conclusions. If a teacher back home blamed their noisy kids on some forum and then a bunch of other teachers did as well, I would do the same thing.
A 2015 report from EPIC Hearing Healthcare showed that 15percent of teachers reported a diagnosed hearing loss, compared to 12 percentof workers nationwide. That might not seem like a large difference, but EPICalso found teachers between the ages of 18 and 44 reported a higher rate ofdiagnosed hearing problems (26 percent) than the national average (17 percent).That 9 percent difference is evidence that a teachers work environment is amajor contributing factor to their hearing difficulties.
There's a host of potential causes and you know what human beings are terrible at? Being a good judge of those. The fact is when we're engaged in recreation we have much different tolerances and perceptions of things vs. when we're engaged in work or in some situation we are involuntarily, doing an activity that isn't bringing us enjoyment. To suggest otherwise is to argue against organic chemistry and neurology and a bunch of other sciences. And this is before we even get to plain old aging.FFS, people on here talk about being college educated adults, well the first thing a college educated adult should do is apply some sort of scientific reasoning to things and healthy skepticism.
What? No he didn't! He linked a study showing Korean young people's LNE, so how does that say Korea is responsible for foreign teachers' tinnitus? It doesn't, that's how. Your problematic relation with truth-telling is becoming more and more acute.
https://www.jameshearing.co.uk/teachers-risk-hearing-loss-impairment#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20recent%20study,other%20professionals%20(17%20percent).http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-72992007000200015&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=enhttp://www.bjorl.org//en-occupational-hearing-loss-in-teachers-articulo-S1808869415310727
Like, say, break into a reasoned discussion about the possible relationship between a noisy occupation and hearing loss and making untethered accusations about going to "loud hip-hop clubs", playing video games too loudly, and similar BS. All while ignoring the possibility of doing even five minutes of research that shows the occupational hearing loss for teachers is definitely a thing. That kind of scientific reasoning from college educated adults?
He's done it again! Unbelievable!
