from the "hear, here" dept.

I found a nifty little web app that lets you self-test your hearing. Now, I assume there are all sorts of caveats involved with testing your hearing online... but it is a fairly simple process that may indicate a hearing loss.

The test is HERE.

I was shocked by my poor performance at the higher end of the scale, although this could simply a limitation of my headphones to produce those frequencies. Additionally, background noise from Guatemala likely masked some of the sounds.

My results looked like this:

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Cheers!