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Originally Posted by Etoile
How do people know what "percent deaf" you are anyway? Is that on the audiogram somewhere or you divide your loss by a maximum number or something?
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"Percent deaf" is, as far as I can tell, a misnomer; often, people just use their SRTs. More accurate would be to divide your SRT by 120 and convert that to a percentage, but even that is sort of a useless number, I think. My guess is that it's popular because most people don't know what it means to be moderately/severely/profoundly/completely deaf, but people are (sort of) familiar with percents.