A team of international researchers recently conducted a study to check how sensitive the human cochlea is by analyzing its response to sounds of different loudness and pitch. The scientists, led by Dr Patricia Balaresque from the Centre for Biodiversity and Environmental Research (CRBE) in France, worked with the hypothesis that age would be the primary factor in influencing cochlear sensitivity.
However, the results of their study proved the scientists wrong. Our “findings show that hearing amplitude is more influenced by sex than age, with women showing an average of two decibels more sensitive hearing than men across all the populations studied,” the researchers note.