Yanny or Laurel?

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Yanny or Laurel?

Yanny
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54%
Laurel
28
46%
 
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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by Alvin Flummux » Wed May 16, 2018 12:29 pm

Could age be a factor in perception, here? Young people can perceive certain higher frequency noises that adults cannot.

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by Hypes » Wed May 16, 2018 12:39 pm

I heard Yanny this morning but now can only hear Laurel. My ears have broken :(

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by Kezzer » Wed May 16, 2018 12:59 pm

I can hear both depending on what one I am looking at / wanting to hear

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by Choclet-Milk » Wed May 16, 2018 1:23 pm

I hear Laurel, but I can hear '...anny' in a sort of crackly whisper at the end of it. Can't for the life of me hear the full word, though.

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by That » Wed May 16, 2018 1:43 pm

Earfolds wrote:
Earfolds wrote:I hear Yanny in a high-pitched voice and Laurel in a low-pitched voice at the same time.

I tried messing around with the audio a little and I guess that's exactly what's happening.

Aye. The idea is that different people are more sensitive to different frequency ranges. You probably happen to be dead in the middle, which means you can hear both.

A priori I would expect young women to be the most solidly "yanny" group and older men to be the most solidly "laurel" group. Would be interesting to see some statistics and learn whether that's actually the case!

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by Earfolds » Wed May 16, 2018 1:58 pm

The nature of this reminds me of the Marilyn Monroe-Albert Einstein illusion, which uses low- and high-sharpness to put two images in one, kinda like how this is low- and high-frequency sound.

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Close-up it looks like Einstein, and far away it looks like Monroe.

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by LewisD » Wed May 16, 2018 2:12 pm

Yanny totes.
How can it be anything else?

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by Ironhide » Wed May 16, 2018 2:51 pm

I don't hear either, sounds more like a cat vomiting.

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by Jenuall » Wed May 16, 2018 3:07 pm

It's a mess of a sound really but I can certainly understand why someone would say they hear "Yanny".

Nothing in there even comes close to sounding like "Laurel" to me!

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by Skarjo » Wed May 16, 2018 5:37 pm

Ironhide wrote:I don't hear either, sounds more like a cat vomiting.


The strawberry float is wrong with your cat?

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by Ironhide » Wed May 16, 2018 5:57 pm

Skarjo wrote:
Ironhide wrote:I don't hear either, sounds more like a cat vomiting.


The strawberry float is wrong with your cat?


Other than being dead for several years, quite a lot I'd say, he was a bit 'special'

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by Preezy » Wed May 16, 2018 6:06 pm

Blue Eyes wrote:Er, it's very clearly Laurel. What the strawberry float is this bollocks?

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by Errkal » Wed May 16, 2018 6:24 pm

Hyperion wrote:I heard Yanny this morning but now can only hear Laurel. My ears have broken :(


I was the other way round

Edit: it's swapped back now.

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by smurphy » Wed May 16, 2018 6:25 pm

This thing is nuts. At work I hear yanny, my mate heard laurel. Come home and try it here, now I hear laurel. Come back 5 minutes later and it's back to yanny, then immediate on a second play it's back to laurel.

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by Errkal » Wed May 16, 2018 6:28 pm

Thinking about it at work I was wearing different headphones.
It is consistently Laurel on the Bluetooth headphones I wear for music to and from work and was consistently yanny on my wired ones at work.

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by sawyerpip » Wed May 16, 2018 6:29 pm

The very first time I heard a weird combination of 'Yaurel', now I can't hear anything but Laurel after repeated listening.

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by Moggy » Wed May 16, 2018 6:31 pm

I can only hear Laurel.

My wife says she heard it as Yanny this morning but can only hear Laurel now.

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by Hypes » Wed May 16, 2018 6:32 pm

I can switch between them now

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by Jenuall » Wed May 16, 2018 6:37 pm

Hyperion wrote:I can switch between them now


:roll: Check out "The One" over here!

I still can't get anything other than Yanny out of it, and I've listened on multiple devices now!

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PostRe: Yanny or Laurel?
by Mini E » Wed May 16, 2018 6:47 pm

Ffs. It was "Laurel" at work and I got irritated that this was a stupid internet thing and made fun of my colleague who heard "Yanny".

Back home after dinner and all I can hear is Yanny.

Just listened again and all I can hear is Laurel. Stupid human body.


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