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What are you basing this on?

There's hundreds of studies on this, it's absolute fact that noise causes damage, I can't believe you're trying to argue that it doesn't. And literally every study I've found controls for age because that's a super obvious confounding factor

How do you explain that noise studies on violinists found significantly worse hearing loss in the left ear (closer to where the violin is held) vs right ear?

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On the fact I can hear perfectly, what are my ears magic?. No it’s not obvious at all. As we age we accumulate toxic chemicals, take injuries, and genetics become corrupted as the telomeres become exhausted. After the average age our ancestors reproduced is passed, anything and everything goes really.

Look at a violinist play, their neck is held at a 45 degree angle, compressing blood vessels going to… the left ear. If you do that 5 hours a day you might just get hearing loss.

See you’re oversimplifying a system with many layers of complexity. But if noise made you deaf and light made you blind, we would have many more deaf and blind people.

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