Pseudohypacusis and Appropriate Strategies to Detect and Quantify the Condition

In Chapter 1, the high incidence of exaggerated hearing test results in the South African mining industry, as well as the negative impact this exaggeration potentially has in terms of cost and the effectiveness of audiological centres, was described. This sets the scene for this study which attempts to evaluate one possible way to address deliberate exaggeration of hearing loss on the part of noise-exposed mine workers.