How Many Times People Have to Get Temporary Threshold Shift to Permanently Damage Their Hearing?

[Michael Sullivan]

Just curious how many times do you think people have to get temporary threshold shift to permanently harm their hearing. Like 5? Just curious.

 

[Aaron123]

Just curious how many times do you think people have to get temporary threshold shift to permanently harm their hearing. Like 5?

Just 1. See Kujawa and Liberman (2009): http://www.jneurosci.org/content/29/45/14077.