Word: glorig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against a wall, backed away 20 feet, started speaking in a low conversational tone, walked toward them, asked them to indicate when they could hear what he was saying. Does this test-which the Army, the Navy and the Veterans Administration still use-prove anything? No, says Dr. Aram Glorig, director of aural rehabilitation at the Army Medical Center in Washington...
...Glorig became suspicious of the test, made 173 experiments with it in a special "speech tunnel" with soundproofed walls and ceilings. He told a meeting of hearing specialists at the center last week that the hearing ability of the men tested varied widely even when the same tester used the same words to the same man, and did his best to keep his voice at the same pitch...
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