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Mean SSQ score vs. better-ear hearing loss. The listeners are grouped by aiding configuration (top panel) or age (bottom panel). The score is the average response across the 48 SSQ questions considered here. In the top panel the error bars in the top-right corner illustrate the minimum, mean, and maximum standard deviations of the data points. See Figure 1 for the calculation of hearing loss.
