Laurel or Yanny
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Re: Laurel or Yanny
I thought, and still suspect its has to do with the ability to detect pitches, but there's something I don't quite get. As we get older we cant hear higher feequencies, so I played an audio file that increased in pitch. I can detect higher frequencies than my wife, so I'm not quite sure why she hears what she hears.
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Re: Laurel or Yanny
"Green Needle"Fife wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 6:54 amNow The 'Brainstorm'/'Green Needle' Auditory Illusion Is Breaking Our Brains
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Re: Laurel or Yanny
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What's your point? You think those of us who are saying we hear Yanny are liars?GrumpyCatFace wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 9:47 am
Tried it on my phone, and laptop, and asked the gf what she heard. Laurel all around.... :shrug:
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Re: Laurel or Yanny
I just asked my wife what she heard, no prompting. She said "yammy" actually.
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Re: Laurel or Yanny
My point is that it's eitherKath wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 10:12 amWhat's your point? You think those of us who are saying we hear Yanny are liars?GrumpyCatFace wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 9:47 am
Tried it on my phone, and laptop, and asked the gf what she heard. Laurel all around.... :shrug:
A) A social experiment - different people get different sounds
B) Something VERY different between audio devices
C) Uncovering some very interesting differences in human hearing.
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Re: Laurel or Yanny
Well, current thought is it is some combination of B & C, but the experts say they don't know for sure.GrumpyCatFace wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 10:19 am
My point is that it's either
A) A social experiment - different people get different sounds
B) Something VERY different between audio devices
C) Uncovering some very interesting differences in human hearing.
I doubt your theory that it's A/B testing.
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Re: Laurel or Yanny
GrumpyCatFace wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 10:19 amMy point is that it's eitherKath wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 10:12 amWhat's your point? You think those of us who are saying we hear Yanny are liars?GrumpyCatFace wrote: ↑Fri May 18, 2018 9:47 am
Tried it on my phone, and laptop, and asked the gf what she heard. Laurel all around.... :shrug:
A) A social experiment - different people get different sounds
B) Something VERY different between audio devices
C) Uncovering some very interesting differences in human hearing.
People are unable to hear different frequencies for sure, which is what I suspect is at play, but its still a little puzzling. I listened to it with my wife together on my phone, and without any prompting on what the words could be, said she said that she heard "yammy", while I clearly heard "laurel".