My favorite quote from the linked article, Table 1 Row 1:

> Gaming was associated with poorer self-reported hearing. Use of hearing protection is uncommon (<5%) among gamers.

The study quoted by the featured study is very reasonable in finding this given its context, but I think it's a little ridiculous the featured study suggested that gamers might use hearing protection as opposed to turning the sound down.

In any case, this is interesting to see. I never turn my volume up past about 20% because it becomes physically painful at that point, but I thought maybe some people might have insensitive hardware that needs higher power to create reasonable audio? Are folks just leaving their volume on the default 50% or 100% or whatever it is?