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Old 02-09-2011, 06:22 PM   #6
Trilby
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble View Post
They are true audiologists. I heard an episode of the show once where they talked about how girls who were sexually abused as children had a "little girl" voice quality, and that specifically the age of the voice stopped at the age of the abuse. If she sounds like an 8-year-old on the phone, she was molested at 8. Drew was better at it than Adam, but the two of them demonstrated this over the course of several callers--"if you were abused, call in and we'll tell you how old you were when it happened"--and they were within a year, every time.
I heard that, too! It was wild how they knew!
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