Assessing the Validity of MarkeTrak IX Adoption Rates
Today’s post by frequent contributor Amyn Amlani, PhD, is a fitting salute to David Kirkwood, who retires this week as Editor-in-Chief of HHTM. Kirkwood was first to report MarkeTrak IX findings, a month before they became available to the public. Wayne Staab, HHTM’s new Editor-in-Chief, followed Kirkwood’s lead with two posts analyzing portions of the…
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I’ll Take That Bet and Raise You
Our profession was treated last week to a timely and balanced discussion of unbundling by Robyn Cox PhD. She is one of audiology’s most reasoned thinkers, test creator extraordinaire, talented researcher, and a nice person to boot. Dr. Cox addressed concerns being raised in policy-making circles that traditional hearing aid dispensing models are pricing many…
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Where’d Those Numbers Come From? Data for the Pricing Posts
Premium Pricing for major technological innovations raised average prices of hearing aids by about $1000 from 1994 to 2011, as shown in a previous post and reproduced above. The Data Fig 1 was derived from the numbers contained in Table 1, footnoted to explain origins, derivations, and assumptions. Nominal average Price (left column of…
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