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About 31% of adults test as highly sensitive.

<blockquote style="margin:0;padding:16px 20px;border-left:3px solid #4a7a6f;background:#f6f5f1;font-family:Georgia,serif">
  <p style="margin:0;font-size:1.1em;font-weight:bold">About 31% of adults test as highly sensitive.</p>
  <p style="margin:8px 0 0;font-size:0.9em">A 2018 latent class analysis in Translational Psychiatry found three groups rather than a sensitive minority: roughly 29% low sensitivity, 40% medium, and 31% high.</p>
  <cite style="display:block;margin-top:8px;font-size:0.85em;font-style:normal">Translational Psychiatry, 2018, via
    <a href="https://sensotype.ai/learn/sensory-sensitivity-statistics">Sensory Sensitivity Statistics - Sensotype</a></cite>
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18.4% of UK adults experience misophonia at a level that causes significant problems.

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  <p style="margin:0;font-size:1.1em;font-weight:bold">18.4% of UK adults experience misophonia at a level that causes significant problems.</p>
  <p style="margin:8px 0 0;font-size:0.9em">A representative UK sample with structured interviews - nearly one in five people, not a rare quirk.</p>
  <cite style="display:block;margin-top:8px;font-size:0.85em;font-style:normal">PLOS ONE, 2023, via
    <a href="https://sensotype.ai/learn/sensory-sensitivity-statistics">Sensory Sensitivity Statistics - Sensotype</a></cite>
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Only 13.6% of people have heard the word misophonia.

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  <p style="margin:0;font-size:1.1em;font-weight:bold">Only 13.6% of people have heard the word misophonia.</p>
  <p style="margin:8px 0 0;font-size:0.9em">Read together with the prevalence figure: the experience is nearly eight times more common than awareness of its name.</p>
  <cite style="display:block;margin-top:8px;font-size:0.85em;font-style:normal">King's College London, 2023, via
    <a href="https://sensotype.ai/learn/sensory-sensitivity-statistics">Sensory Sensitivity Statistics - Sensotype</a></cite>
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Hyperacusis shows up in roughly 8 to 15% of adults.

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  <p style="margin:0;font-size:1.1em;font-weight:bold">Hyperacusis shows up in roughly 8 to 15% of adults.</p>
  <p style="margin:8px 0 0;font-size:0.9em">A scoping review covering 42 studies and almost 35,000 people - ordinary volume, physically uncomfortable.</p>
  <cite style="display:block;margin-top:8px;font-size:0.85em;font-style:normal">Scoping review, 2021, via
    <a href="https://sensotype.ai/learn/sensory-sensitivity-statistics">Sensory Sensitivity Statistics - Sensotype</a></cite>
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About one in ten adults describes themselves as very noise sensitive.

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  <p style="margin:0;font-size:1.1em;font-weight:bold">About one in ten adults describes themselves as very noise sensitive.</p>
  <p style="margin:8px 0 0;font-size:0.9em">Epidemiological work from New Zealand; about half of adults report at least moderate noise sensitivity.</p>
  <cite style="display:block;margin-top:8px;font-size:0.85em;font-style:normal">Epidemiology of noise sensitivity, New Zealand, via
    <a href="https://sensotype.ai/learn/sensory-sensitivity-statistics">Sensory Sensitivity Statistics - Sensotype</a></cite>
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