I tried to do this by following the IRS calculator on their website, and my employer's accountant called me and said it didn't make sense. So they set my withholding to 0. Oh, well.

This is not what the research shows. It shows that the AirPod Pros work similarly to premium hearing aids when the noise is coming from the lateral side, but not the front side. There were not significant differences in quiet environments, but there were in noisy environments. People who are hard of hearing need the most assistance in noisy environments.

Second of all, they looked at people who had bilateral sensorineural hearing loss in the mild-to-moderate range. If I know anything about the audiology world, it's that nothing ever happens that way in real life and tons of people have different hearing levels in their ears. They didn't even tell us where the hearing loss occurred. Was it in the high pitches or the low pitches? Did all the patients experience hearing loss in the same frequencies?

What I don't understand about this study is how they got the AirPods to pick up noise in the room that did not come from the phone. I understand how they did it with hearing aids because hearing aids have microphones that pick up stuff from the environment, which then gets amplified and converted into sound in someone's ear.

How did they program the Airpods to do that? Because I thought the point of earphones was to block out the sound around you and pump in the sound from the phone. When you speak into a microphone on the airpods, it goes to someone else's hearing set. So how did they reroute it to the Airpods own hearing set? It was not explained in the methods. EDIT: It's apparently a built in feature with the iphone and Airpods Pro called "Headphone Accommodations."

Because the only people technically qualified to prescribe hearing aids are audiologists. How many audiologists do you know? The industry requires you to have a PhD in audiology. Secondly, most insurances do not cover hearing aids/hearing tests even when people need them.

There's a ton of gatekeeping when it comes to hearing aids. Some of the gatekeeping makes sense since hearing involves lots of delicate and small pieces in your ear. I wouldn't want someone without the education prescribing hearing aids for me. However, all this gatekeeping keeps people from getting the help they need.

>I think that what Freud is talking about is the let-down after achieving a particularly difficult goal--not about people who are successful relative to their peers after a long career in which they exert effort that is within the range of normal for people of the same social class.

I was thinking of it in terms of stress. Everything you cited, from a woman trying to get married and an academic getting a bigger job, these are major life events. We know all major life events, good and bad, are stressful and the more stressful events we experience within a year, the more likely we are to end up sick. The human body can only deal with so much stress before it begins to break down.