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Help, I’ve Memorized the Word List!—Understanding Hearing Loss Speech Testing
Whenever I have my hearing tested, it seems the audiologist uses the same list of words each time. I can understand this for people who have never been tested before, but when I get my hearing tested regularly, isn’t this sort of ridiculous? I mean, I’ve half-memorized the word list so I’m not getting fair test results, am I?
This article explains the various tests using word lists, their purpose and what the results mean.