Abstract
Relating noise-induced annoyance to acoustic quantities has proved to be a frustrating undertaking. In several decades of pursuit of formal means for quantifying adverse attitudes of individuals and groups toward noise exposure, the successes have been relatively narrow in scope, and are the exception rather than the rule. One is as hard pressed to predict in precise terms how acceptable a new noise source will be to a community as to characterize the absolute acceptability to individuals of degraded speech quality. Many are inclined to attribute the meager success in predicting annoyance from acoustic quantities to problems of measurement—either physical or social. The viewpoint presented in this paper is that the problems are more fundamentally those of theory and analysis, and that substantial progress in this field is unlikely to result from further applications of old approaches and methods.
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