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A Interpretation of Findings of Controlled-Exposure and Social Survey Studies
Pages 39-41

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... The similarity in the pooling of annoyance judgments does not constitute a logical link between the probability that a single noise intrusion will lead to an individual's report of annoyance in some degree (as in a controlled-exposure study) and the proportion of residents highly annoyed by cumulative noise exposure in a community (as in a social survey)
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... Sampling method Self-selection Variable; often random representation Test participants Paid test subjects providing Neighborhood residents informed consent Dependent variable Immediate, solicited judgments of Delayed, retrospective (quantity judged) short-term annoyance of temporally judgment of long-term compressed presentations of novel annoyance of habitual signals during a test session of exposure to familiar sounds relatively short duration occurring at times of day and intervals appropriate to their generating mechanisms Basic datum Relative frequency of occurrence of specific, solicited judgments Data collection setting Contrived (laboratory or modified residential)
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... However, the prevalence of high annoyance in a community is estimated from a count of the number of respondents expressing a shared opinion about the long-term annoyance of neighborhood noise exposure, not about the annoyance of individual noise intrusions. For example, if 40 of 200 survey respondents at an interview site with homogeneous noise exposure describe themselves as either "very" or "extremely" annoyed by neighborhood noise exposure, the proportion of highly annoyed respondents associated with the neighborhood noise exposure is said to be 0.2.
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