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Young viewers prefer TV subtitles, research suggests

by mjmasn on 11/15/21, 6:23 AM with 3 comments

• by samizdis on 11/15/21, 8:49 AM

  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-commun...

  [2] https://www.stagetext.org/support-us/caption-awareness-week/

• by jdboyd on 11/15/21, 6:46 AM

  This is certainly something my kids like to do. They aren't in the target age range for the study though.

• by ddingus on 11/15/21, 7:05 AM

  My young one likes them. Her Nana need them sometimes and she is learning to read.