Can you hear dog whistles?

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The frequency of most dog whistles is within the range of 23 to 54 kHz, while some are listed as being around 5 kHz.  Human hearing peaks out at just below 20 kHz, and this decreases in frequency with age.  Some people may be able to hear higher notes, but this would be very rare.

As Fnord said human hearing is supposed to range from 20 vibrations a second, to 20 thousand a second. Humans are just flat out NOT supposed to be able to hear into the 23 to 50 range that dog whistles do, and that dogs can hear.

A professor in a college course I took played a series of electronic tones (starting from 20 k and then progressively going down). I couldnt hear anything until he got down to maybe 16 thousand (some embarrassingly low number, but I was older than most of the class), but even most of the youngsters couldnt hear any tone below like 17 or 18k.

Its too bad that these folks testing you didnt document what the frequencies were that you could hear.

And you claim that you can hear bats too? Thats also not supposed to be possible for humans.

Maybe you're a freak of nature. But it would be kinda cool if you someone could just test you (not for health or for hiring, but just to investigate) to see if you can indeed hear into these higher ranges. Playing you electronic tones would be good because you wouldnt get fooled by other sounds like air rushing through a whistle.

At the moment I have one of my ears blocked and using stuff to clear it.

I used to be able to hear them when I was younger. Found out I could because a neighbor of mine would use one for her dog and it drove me nuts. I couldn't figure out what the noise was or where it was coming from for awhile. Finally saw her outside one day using it, and the mystery was solved. I dont know when I stopped hearing them. As a teen someone had one and didn't believe I could hear it, I could. Then I tried again in my twenties and I couldn't hear it then, or anytime after that.

I know I cannot hear doggy whistles because it is beyond the normal hearing range. However I can hear boxed TV sets TVs and I used to hear them all the time and I was shocked that lot of people couldn't hear them, I hear the sound I hear is at the edge of the normal hearing range so that would explain why half of the population can't seem to hear it.

I can hear our flat big screen TV in our living room but the sound isn't as loud and it turns itself off when there is no activity.

Political dog whistles are just sentences and phrases politicians use that target a certain group of people and the majority won't notice it because it won't affect them.

Someone mentioned about bats, my husband says he can hear them. Am I going to hear next how humans aren't supposed to hear fluorescent lights? I also recall reading somewhere that infants can hear bats too because they have higher frequency hearing range. That is why teens can hear the mosquito tone and adults can't because as we get older, our hearing range drops so we hear less sound frequencies. But people on the spectrum are known for having better hearing so they may hear sounds most people will not notice like they may hear conversations across the room, may hear other things most people wouldn't be able to hear.

the horizontal scan whistle [15,754 cycles per second ] from old CRTs used to drill through my cranium like, well, a drill. been a while since i heard one of them.

Can you hear dog whistles?

Yes,
I can "hear" political "dog-whistling".