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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Apr 4.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Res Methods. 2023 Jun 8;56(3):1433–1448. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02101-9

Figure 2. Validation of the hearing screening procedure.

Figure 2.

(A) A meta-analyis of 15 studies in the literature suggested that speech-in-noise tasks yield a large effect size separating individuals with normal hearing (NH) and hearing loss (HL). (B) Theoretical calculations based on results from panel (A) predict the expected tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity for the detection of hearing loss. This was used to determine cutoff scores for the hearing screening procedure. (C) Actual selectivity of our hearing screening procedure was quantified in a cohort of subjects with a professional (clinical) diagnosis of hearing loss. Sensitivity for any degree of HL was about 81%. Sensitivity for more-than-mild HL (i.e., moderate, moderately-severe, or severe) was > 95%. Error bars in panel (C) indicate standard deviation of estimated pass rates from N = 72 subjects.