Abnormal speech discrimination

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A while ago I uploaded my 23andMe data for a study to see if phenotypes could be predicted from genotypes .

I got the results just under a fortnight ago . One of the things that was a possible phenotype for me was 'Abnormal speech discrimination' .

I'm not really sure what that means, and would welcome input from those more knowledgeable about the subject.

Never heard the term before.

My guess

"Abnormal speech discrimintion" probably means "impaired speech descrimination". And that THAT in turn means either one of two things: that you are impaired in identifying individuals by their voices (like face blindness in the ear), OR that you are impaired in picking up emotion in a person's voice (tell an an angry tone from a nonangry tone,say). Just a guess. Havent googled it yet.

Just now googled it. I cant even find that exact phrase "abnormal speech discrimination" coming up, but I find academic papers that have to do with the issue of distinguishing human speech from background noise. So my above guess may be off. It probably means "being impaired in telling the human voice from background noise".

I suspect it means discrimination against people with abnormal speech. Like I have thick Russian accent, my voice is loud and monotone. So when I speak then women look at me with disgust. They are discriminating against the abnormal speech.

Well, speech discrimination means how well you understand speech when it's loud enough for you to hear it properly. So I'm guessing you tested positive for having that problem?

https://hearinglosshelp.com/blog/what-i ... imination/

Thanks for replying , all of you . @Skilpadde it's not something I've been tested for , but a possible phenotype that's indicated from a genotype.