Why the audiogram is upside-down

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.

Key Words::

• Behavioral measures
• medical audiology
• psychoacoustics/hearing science

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Acknowledgements

I am grateful for the many helpful suggestions of Susan Jerger, Michael Stewart, and Richard Wilson.

Declaration of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.