Table 2.

Relationship of Responses to Questions About Severity of Hearing Loss (Question 5) and Ease of Hearing Speech in Quiet Without Hearing Aids (Question 6).

	Mild	Moderate	Severe	Profound
Very easy	6	11	2	3
Fairly easy	20	52	21	2
Medium	6	59	25	7
Somewhat difficult	1	35	35	7
Very difficult	1	19	83	34
Impossible	0	3	48	43