A couple of weeks ago, researchers from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston reported that:
A stunning number of teens have lost a little bit of their hearing – nearly one in five – and the problem has increased substantially in recent years.
(NPR, August 13, 2010)
The chief cause of this pandemic of perforated eardrums is the deceptively high volume at which these kids listen to digital music through little iPod ear buds.
But clearly no parent of a teenage child needed this study to figure out that kids these days are deaf as well as dumb and lazy.
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