8.118 Audiology Research In a study to establish the absolute threshold of hearing, 70 male first-year university students were asked to participate. Each sub- ject was seated in a soundproof room and a 150 Hz tone was presented at a large number of stimulus levels in a randomized order. The subject was instructed to press a button if he detected the tone; the experimenter recorded the lowest stimulus level at which the tone was detected. The mean for the group was 21.6 db with s = 2.1. Estimate the mean absolute threshold for all first-year university students and calculate the margin of error.