title: 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.
authors: Department of Cognition & Neuroscience, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA. jjerger@utdallas.edu
authors: James
authors: J
authors: Jerger
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001299:Audiometry / Q000266:history; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003626:Data Display; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011571:Psychoacoustics