Modest sex differences in the test of basic auditory capabilities (TBAC)
Dennis McFadden, Edward G. Pasanen, Gary R. Kidd, Brian Gygi · 2024
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Description
Men and women hear nearly alike on basic tests, and a 2024 re-analysis by Dennis McFadden and co-authors puts numbers on the small gaps. The test battery covers nineteen hearing tasks, from telling tones apart to naming sounds, built for studying how listeners differ.
The data came from 340 normal-hearing adults tested earlier, now sorted by sex. Each subtest got an effect size for the sex gap, with a resampling method judging which gaps stand out. Almost all differences proved small. The authors note that body-level measures, such as faint echoes the ear itself emits, show much bigger sex gaps than behavior does. Those hardware gaps, they argue, do not simply travel up the hearing pathway.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Dennis McFadden, Edward G. Pasanen, Gary R. Kidd, Brian Gygi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |