Yanny or Laurel ??

Yanny or Laurel?

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Apparently, if you have a below average IQ you will hear Yanny. If you are large in the "trouser department" you hear Laurel. Science eh!
 
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Eaststandboy said:
Are the people that hear yanny messing about??!! Deffo laurel, heard it on Radio 1 this morning and thought Laurel!
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The secret, it turns out, is frequency. The part of the sound that makes some people hear Yanny is higher frequency than that which makes some people hear Laurel.
As Lars Riecke, assistant professor of audition and cognitive neuroscience at Maastricht University, explained to The Verge "If you remove all the low frequencies, you hear yanny. If you remove the high frequencies, you hear laurel.
"If your... ears emphasise both the higher and lower frequencies, you can toggle between the two sounds."
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Laurel.

Seems I'm in the minority. I even tried saying Yanny along with the audio file, but nope, still Laurel.
 
Apparently there is an age element too, as high frequencies are the first to deteriorate as you get older.
..and yes I could only hear Laurel,
 
Colin B said:
Yanny.

Try as I might, I could not hear Laurel.

Does this mean I am of lower IQ, small in the trouser department, or very young? Or all three?

I think this experiment is flawed.
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It's actually secret answer number 4) Dave T's errand boy. Now run along, dinner won't make itself.
 
I can only hear laurel I don’t know what my dog poppy can hear but she doesn’t like it.
 
Neither. I hear something like “Yerry”. What’s the point of this exercise? Why is it important to compare these 2 random words?
 
After many more listens, I have now concluded that this is recorded in the station announcers box at Kings Cross Station, where the announcer states "Laurel" over the tannoy. Meanwhile, it is bring your child to work day, and his young daughter is having an in depth whispered conversation with her teddy bear "Yanny" two rooms away.
 
This one changes depends what ur thinking about before playing it. [emoji102]

 
Marked Ox said:
Yellowlab said:
Very odd, whichever one you are thinking of you hear. I wouldn’t have believed it but having tried it .......
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Using that as a basis, I can get it to say "greenstorm" and "brain needle".
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[emoji102][emoji102]. Now that’s messing with my mind.

I like this one as well. Depending which end of the pic u are looking the train changes direction
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Dave T said:
[emoji102][emoji102]. Now that’s messing with my mind.

I like this one as well. Depending which end of the pic u are looking the train changes direction
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Not dissimilar to images of spoked wheels appearing to turn the wrong way. Optical illusions I can accept having been aware of them for a long time. These audible illusions (if that is what they are called) are just downright strange.
 
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