Thursday, February 15, 2007

Revolting Sounds

In a year long Internet study of 1,100,000 people, Professor Trevor Cox, an acoustical engineer doing research at Salford University in Manchester, England had participants listen to 34 sounds and rate them from bad, really bad, awful, really awful to horrible. Drum roll please . . . . . here are the top ten
1 vomiting
2 microphone feedback
3 multiple babies crying
4 scraping of train wheels
5 seesaw squeaking
6 bad violin playing
7 flatulence
8 one baby crying
9 soap opera argument
10 electicity hum

the survey is here

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