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. 2013 Mar;52(3):146-50.
doi: 10.3109/14992027.2012.752112. Epub 2013 Jan 15.

Why the audiogram is upside-down

James Jerger  1
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Why the audiogram is upside-down

James Jerger. Int J Audiol. 2013 Mar.

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  • Int J Audiol. 2013 Apr;52(4):303

Abstract

Two quite sensible ways of recording audiometric threshold data emerged in the early 1920s. They were advanced by Edmund Prince Fowler, an otologist, and by Harvey Fletcher, a physicist. Either would probably have been better than the present system, and would have preserved scientific tradition relative to the orientation of the ordinates of graphs.

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  • The audiogram: upside down?
    Roeser RJ. Roeser RJ. Int J Audiol. 2013 Mar;52(3):145. doi: 10.3109/14992027.2013.763295. Int J Audiol. 2013. PMID: 23398217 No abstract available.

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