Kids: Today, as a physics teacher, I was testing a class to see how...

By mrtut - 29/10/2010 12:17 - United Kingdom

Today, as a physics teacher, I was testing a class to see how high a sound frequency they could hear. One girl claimed she could hear the sound even though it was physically impossible. Without thinking, I replied "Only dogs can hear this frequency." Needless to say, she was picked on all day. FML

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Friday 29 October 2010 20:15

She was probably lying and trying to sound superior if she claimed she could hear frequencies that are in dog-range, so I guess she got what was coming to her.

mike3775 35

Friday 29 October 2010 20:55

Actually what he said was not wrong. If she is claiming to hear it, then she deserves to be picked on, especially when it is impossible for her to have heard it. The classmates were wrong, but the OP wasn't

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Agiggleaday 0

Friday 29 October 2010 20:45

win (:

dancer_is_hawt 3

Friday 29 October 2010 20:45

She was lying.

Schiffy 18

Friday 29 October 2010 20:47

hey, not your fault, in fact, she deserved it for lying like that

perdix 29

Friday 29 October 2010 20:49

You're a dogmatic ass for saying it was "physically impossible" for her to hear a certain frequency. You have no idea what her auditory physiology is, so you can't know with certainty if she hears it or not. Teenagers can hear higher frequencies than adults and they are thinking of using that fact to drive teenagers out of stores that cater to an older crowd by playing an annoying high-pitched sound that adults can't detect. So, you mean the GEICO commercial is wrong: She CAN hear dog whistles?

Jest_fml 0

Friday 29 October 2010 22:47

Yes, Teenagers can hear somewhat higher frequencies than adults, due their ears and brain being younger. BUT, there is a huge difference between dog frequencies and Human frequencies. Typically, a dog whistle is within the range of 16 to 22 kHz with only the frequencies below 20 kHz audible to the human ear.

miss_amphetamine 24

Monday 25 May 2015 3:22

I'm 22 and I can hear up to 21 kHz. I thought dog whistles were, like, 40 kHz but if it was only 21-22 kHz, the girl totally could have been telling the truth. That is not uncommon.