This is TOTALLY a thing. You're friend may be lip-reading more than she knows. Looking as someones face while they're talking increases understanding. My grandpa was half-deaf, about. He could understand you if he either 1. already knew approximately what you were saying. or 2. You talked really loudly, or 3. if he was watching you while you spoke.
And the crazy part of it was that it crept up on him. He didn't realize that he was doing this, nor realize that his hearing was going. It was just coping strategies he'd come up with that worked. Fine. Then we found out that we didn't need to speak up at all, he really was lip-reading, and he didn't realize it.
So yeah, she totally can hear you better when she has her glasses on. Lip-reading is NOT an all or nothing thing, and people can and do learn how to do it without realizing it.
#16 Turning down the radio actually does work better. It reduces the distraction factor, aka information overload. You don't have to think so much about what you're listening too, so you drive and navigate much better.
There was a study, done in Australia where there's only ONE cellphone company, and that company tracks what accessories you use and when. So there were able to correlate accidents with cell phone use, and separate out hands-free vs. holding it to your head. And they found it made absolutely no difference whatsoever. It's the distraction, not what you're doing with your hands or not doing with your hands. I suppose it's probably the same when you're talking to someone in the passenger seat, but at least then they can keep a weather eye out and give you a heads up when you're about to run a stop sign or something else stupid.
Everyone's goal should be to finally set their criminal FBI agent back on the right, freedom-respecting path.
ReplyDeleteOr go to his funeral.....
Delete^what he said.
Delete#4 so much for "Don't stick your dick in crazy".
ReplyDeleteIt's a matter of degree. And no, it's not a distribution that favors "not crazy."
Delete16. Have a friend, who can't understand what is being said put her glasses on and say "what was that you said:.
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This is TOTALLY a thing. You're friend may be lip-reading more than she knows. Looking as someones face while they're talking increases understanding. My grandpa was half-deaf, about. He could understand you if he either 1. already knew approximately what you were saying. or 2. You talked really loudly, or 3. if he was watching you while you spoke.
DeleteAnd the crazy part of it was that it crept up on him. He didn't realize that he was doing this, nor realize that his hearing was going. It was just coping strategies he'd come up with that worked. Fine. Then we found out that we didn't need to speak up at all, he really was lip-reading, and he didn't realize it.
So yeah, she totally can hear you better when she has her glasses on. Lip-reading is NOT an all or nothing thing, and people can and do learn how to do it without realizing it.
John G
I rely on lip reading to understand what people are saying. When everyone was wearing those stupid fucking face diapers I thought I would go crazy.
Delete#2 - I know the dude on the left ain't saying "Hey, where did I leave my Stetson?"
ReplyDeleteI can't speak for the one on the right...
#4 gets my coveted "post of the day because it's so damn true" award!!!!!
ReplyDeleteBoy if that ain’t true.
Delete#3. I used to drink Iced Tea from a plastic Jim Beam half gallon bottle. People get real scared.
ReplyDelete#16 Turning down the radio actually does work better. It reduces the distraction factor, aka information overload. You don't have to think so much about what you're listening too, so you drive and navigate much better.
ReplyDeleteThere was a study, done in Australia where there's only ONE cellphone company, and that company tracks what accessories you use and when. So there were able to correlate accidents with cell phone use, and separate out hands-free vs. holding it to your head. And they found it made absolutely no difference whatsoever. It's the distraction, not what you're doing with your hands or not doing with your hands. I suppose it's probably the same when you're talking to someone in the passenger seat, but at least then they can keep a weather eye out and give you a heads up when you're about to run a stop sign or something else stupid.
John G
Number #5.
ReplyDeleteIs that van from a rock group? Driven by "Stung"?
#2 You were always on my mind.
ReplyDeleteJohn G. Australia, “only one cellphone company”? Try one hundred mobile phone service providers! Actually a bit less, but there are many of them.
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