Microphone Sensitivity
How much you hear. Controls whether you pick up on the quiet signals — tone shifts, what someone didn't say, the things most people miss.
Rachel McCormick and the Desert Honeymoon
Microphone Sensitivity. Rachel McCormick thought she was listening to Edvi's stories about border crossing, but her sensitivity was tuned to academic analysis rather than human suffering. In the desert, when she heard the faint groan from the bushes and found the dehydrated man, her microphone sensitivity recalibrated to pick up the quiet signals of real human pain that her intellectual framework had been filtering out.