Do blind people hear better?

[puppyonacid]

What's the general consensus?

The idea that people born without sight have more attuned hearing, or people that lose their sight find their hearing becomes more acute.

There is little evidence to support this happening in medical circles yet it seems widely regarded as being true.

[BlobVanDam]

I don't think blind people's ears are any better, but because they're more reliant on their hearing, they'd probably be much better at identifying and interpreting what they're hearing.

[puppyonacid]

That's what I think. They can interpret what they here more keenly.

[jasc15]

That's what I think. They can interpret what they here more keenly.

This is what I would figure; that they are more keen out of necessity.  It's not like there are "sensory points" that are allocated to our senses, and if you lose one, those points are reallocated to the other senses.

[Big Hath]

but Daredevil

[puppyonacid]

Good point!

[rumborak]

That's what I think. They can interpret what they here more keenly.

This is what I would figure; that they are more keen out of necessity.  It's not like there are "sensory points" that are allocated to our senses, and if you lose one, those points are reallocated to the other senses.

Actually, they are. They have found that people who had lost their vision were starting to use their visual cortex for hearing purposes too. The brain's plasticity is pretty amazing in that sense. A friend of mine in Germany has severe brain trauma a few years back and was not able to speak and stuff. Pretty close to vegetable, for a long time. I saw him last year, and you would not be able to tell. His brain had rewired itself so that other parts were helping with tasks that the damaged parts used to do.

[TempusVox]

No, the entire world pranks them by getting really close to their ears when speaking to them. Being blind, they don't know this. Shhhh. Don't say anything. It's really funny.