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So which is it, Yanny or Laurel? — 16 Comments

  1. I’m old, male and have moderate hearing loss in one ear and mild in the other and I heard yanny, listening with cheap ear buds.

  2. When they played it in the radio, I heard Laurel, but playing the Reddit clip, I heard “yammy.”

  3. Also old and male with measured high-frequency hearing loss, and I hear “yanni”, without any hint of anything else, whether through my low-end-of-the-high-end stereo speakers or the eensy little one on my phone.

    In case you didn’t notice this link in the Yahoo story, give it a try. It lets you adjust the frequency. In my case it turns into “laurel” when I get about two notches to the left.

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-clip-yanny-laurel-debate.html

  4. Mac:

    Yes, I clicked on all those links at the site, and I heard “Laurel” on the last couple of them.

  5. I’m 73 with tinnitus since being in the service 50 years ago. I hear “Yaurel”

  6. Laurel; no question.

    Some folks claim that I have significant high frequency loss, but I doubt that. Certainly no more than you would expect after decades around jet engines, and such. I hear my tinnitus just fine.

  7. Two hearing aids and difficulty with conversations in loud restaurants: Laurel.

  8. I’m in the older generation, but I’m hearing ‘yanny’, which is supposed to be what the young people are hearing. No clue./

  9. Powerline’s Week in Pictures is on the case:

    https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2018/05/What-do-you-see.jpeg?w=990

    And I confess this is exactly what I thought of after seeing the options for names:

    https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2018/05/Laurel-and-Yianni.jpeg?w=956

    PS: if the original video hadn’t primed listeners by giving only two options, what would people have spontaneously answered? Kind of like giving only the two choices for the magic dress’s colors.

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