Voice Pathologies and the General Population’s Perception

To examine how the general population perceives voice pathology based on subjective qualities. Descriptive, cross-sectional, survey-based study This is an IRB approved Qualtrics survey on Amazon MTurk for respondents ages 18 and older. Ten subjects with voice pathologies supplied voice recordings of the Rainbow Passage to be assessed by the respondents. Respondents then assessed the voice conditions on perceived qualities of intelligence, leadership ability, and employability. One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Dunnett’s multiple comparison test with Sidak correction compared the mean scores of the samples (alpha = 0.05). A total of 1,754 responses were included in the final data set. The female control voice was scored as more likely to be a Fortune 500 leader as well as more intelligent, friendly, attractive, and employable when compared to the female vocal fry and muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) recordings (p