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CN 11-1911/B

›› 1987, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (04): 49-53.

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ON ESTIMATION OF CRITICAL N0ISY VALUES CORRESPONDING TO TRANSITION OF ADJACENT ANNOYING CATEGORIES

Ma Mou-chao;He Cun-dao Institute of Psychology, Academia Sinica, China Department of Psychology, East China Normal University   

  • Published:1987-12-25 Online:1987-12-25

Abstract: In this paper a new kind of category scales called MultistageEvaluation Method has been applied to estimate the possibility of noisyannoyance, and a definition about determination of critical noisy valuescorresponding to intersection of adjacent categories of annoyance hasbeen proposed. which indicated that the critical noisy values showingtransitions of annoying category from light quiet to noisiness, heavynoisiness and severe noisiness are 53, 63, 82dB (A) respectively. Thisstudy also explores the relationship between annoyance and noislevels.

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