I'm quite surprised by this, but only because the dozen or so people I spend time with aged between 18 and 25 don't use subtitles/captioning. Hardly a represent

I'm quite surprised by this, but only because the dozen or so people I spend time with aged between 18 and 25 don't use subtitles/captioning. Hardly a representative sample, obviously. But I wondered what the sample size was for this study carried out by a captioning charity. I therefore checked stagetext.org for info, and there's a news item published today [1] titled, Hidden Hard of Hearing Community Revealed by Lockdown Captioning. It has a note saying: Sapio research interviewed 2,003 people in October 2021 with the results weighted to be representative of the GB general population. Two-thirds (67%) of the population do not describe themselves as deaf, deafened or hard of hearing. I'm intrigued. Perhaps I'll learn more soon, given that this is, apparently, Captioning Awareness Week [2]. [1] https://www.stagetext.org/news/hidden-hard-of-hearing-community-revealed-by-lockdown-captioning/ https://www.stagetext.org/news/hidden-hard-of-hearing-commun... [2] https://www.stagetext.org/support-us/caption-awareness-week/ https://www.stagetext.org/support-us/caption-awareness-week/