Noise

Author : Daniel Kahneman,Olivier Sibony,Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780316451383

Get Book

Noise by Daniel Kahneman,Olivier Sibony,Cass R. Sunstein Pdf

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the coauthor of Nudge, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones—"a tour de force” (New York Times). Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients—or that two judges in the same courthouse give markedly different sentences to people who have committed the same crime. Suppose that different interviewers at the same firm make different decisions about indistinguishable job applicants—or that when a company is handling customer complaints, the resolution depends on who happens to answer the phone. Now imagine that the same doctor, the same judge, the same interviewer, or the same customer service agent makes different decisions depending on whether it is morning or afternoon, or Monday rather than Wednesday. These are examples of noise: variability in judgments that should be identical. In Noise, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein show the detrimental effects of noise in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, bail, child protection, strategy, performance reviews, and personnel selection. Wherever there is judgment, there is noise. Yet, most of the time, individuals and organizations alike are unaware of it. They neglect noise. With a few simple remedies, people can reduce both noise and bias, and so make far better decisions. Packed with original ideas, and offering the same kinds of research-based insights that made Thinking, Fast and Slow and Nudge groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers, Noise explains how and why humans are so susceptible to noise in judgment—and what we can do about it.

Author : Jeffrey Ansloos,Shezza Ansloos
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773215600

Get Book

Thunder and the Noise Storms by Jeffrey Ansloos,Shezza Ansloos Pdf

When the world gets too loud and chaotic, a young boy’s grandfather helps him listen with wonder instead. Kids laughing, sneakers squeaking, balls bouncing—for Thunder, the sounds of the school day often brew into overwhelming noise storms. But when Thunder’s mosom asks him what he hears on an urban nature walk, Thunder starts to understand how sounds like bird wings flapping and rushing water can help him feel calm and connected. Gentle, inviting illustrations by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley emphasize Mosom’s lessons about the healing power of the world around us.

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440674471

Get Book

White Noise by Don DeLillo Pdf

A brilliant satire of mass culture and the numbing effects of technology, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, a teacher of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America. Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud, unleashed by an industrial accident, floats over there lives, an "airborne toxic event" that is a more urgent and visible version of the white noise engulfing the Gladneys—the radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, and TV murmurings that constitute the music of American magic and dread.

Author : Anne M. Royston
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262042925

Get Book

Material Noise by Anne M. Royston Pdf

An argument that theoretical works can signify through their materiality—their “noise,” or such nonsemantic elements as typography—as well as their semantic content. In Material Noise, Anne Royston argues that theoretical works signify through their materiality—such nonsemantic elements as typography or color—as well as their semantic content. Examining works by Jacques Derrida, Avital Ronell, Georges Bataille, and other well-known theorists, Royston considers their materiality and design—which she terms “noise”—as integral to their meaning. In other words, she reads these theoretical works as complex assemblages, just as she would read an artist's book in all its idiosyncratic tangibility. Royston explores the formlessness and heterogeneity of the Encyclopedia Da Costa, which published works by Bataille, André Breton, and others; the use of layout and white space in Derrida's Glas; the typographic illegibility—“static and interference”—in Ronell's The Telephone Book; and the enticing surfaces of Mark C. Taylor's Hiding, its digital counterpart The Réal: Las Vegas, NV, and Shelley Jackson's Skin. Royston then extends her analysis to other genres, examining two recent artists' books that express explicit theoretical concerns: Johanna Drucker's Stochastic Poetics and Susan Howe's Tom Tit Tot. Throughout, Royston develops the concept of artistic arguments, which employ signification that exceeds the semantics of a printed text and are not reducible to a series of linear logical propositions. Artistic arguments foreground their materiality and reflect on the media that create them. Moreover, Royston argues, each artistic argument anticipates some aspect of digital thinking, speaking directly to such contemporary concerns as hypertext, communication theory, networks, and digital distribution.

Author : Transportation Systems Center. Technology Sharing Program Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Noise
ISBN : UIUC:30112115710342

Get Book

Transportation Noise Bibliography by Transportation Systems Center. Technology Sharing Program Office Pdf

Author : Clifford R. Bragdon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781512800692

Get Book

Noise Pollution by Clifford R. Bragdon Pdf

In this handbook on a growing public menace, Clifford R. Bragdon applies acoustical engineering and social science to the least understood—yet one of the most serious—environmental hazards of modern society. This book is a precision tool; it gives facts and figures, precise scientific measurements, and accurate data on what noise is, what it does, and how to combat it. The author pinpoints the noise levels—many of them illegal—of automobiles, buses, subways, airplanes, household appliances, and children's toys in numerous charts and tables and relates these data to the measurable social, physical, and psychological damage they do to human beings. He catalogues the "noise-free" claims of manufacturers of these products in an Appendix that speaks for itself. A thorough case study of an area near Philadelphia International Airport and other townships, including five hundred households, the author evaluates existing noise abatement programs on local, state, and federal levels, and finds most of them seriously inadequate. As steps toward the solution to the noise crisis, he proposes a system for rating environmental health, new approaches to community noise management, and a variety of architectural suggestions. The bibliography—probably the most complete and up-to-date source collection on the subject ever assembled—is an invaluable reference work in itself. It lists over five hundred sources, arranged in six major categories: Noise, General; Physical Effects; Psycho-Social Effects; Law; Noise Abatement; and Noise Sources. Noise Pollution is indispensable not only for the concerned citizen but for all those who can, and must, take immediate and effective action in our unquiet crisis: urban planners, architects, hospital administrators, public health officials, transportation executives, lawyers, realtors, sound engineers, manufacturers of transportation equipment and household appliances, and community leaders. It is a vital resource in dealing with the noise crisis that is destroying pleasure, lowering work performance, eroding health, causing physical injury, and even challenging basic human survival.

Author : Josh Epstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421415246

Get Book

Sublime Noise by Josh Epstein Pdf

What is the significance of noise in modernist music and literature? When Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. In Sublime Noise, Josh Epstein examines the significance of noise in modernist music and literature. How—and why—did composers and writers incorporate the noises of modern industry, warfare, and big-city life into their work? Epstein argues that, as the creative class engaged with the racket of cityscapes and new media, they reconsidered not just the aesthetic of music but also its cultural effects. Noise, after all, is more than a sonic category: it is a cultural value judgment—a way of abating and categorizing the sounds of a social space or of new music. Pulled into dialogue with modern music’s innovative rhythms, noise signaled the breakdown of art’s autonomy from social life—even the “old favorites” of Beethoven and Wagner took on new cultural meanings when circulated in noisy modern contexts. The use of noise also opened up the closed space of art to the pressures of publicity and technological mediation. Building both on literary cultural studies and work in the “new musicology,” Sublime Noise examines the rich material relationship that exists between music and literature. Through close readings of modernist authors, including James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, E. M. Forster, and Ezra Pound, and composers, including George Antheil, William Walton, Erik Satie, and Benjamin Britten, Epstein offers a radically contemporary account of musical-literary interactions that goes well beyond pure formalism. This book will be of interest to scholars of Anglophone literary modernism and to musicologists interested in how music was given new literary and cultural meaning during that complex interdisciplinary period.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Aeronautics and Space Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2022 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : UCR:31210019134699

Get Book

Aircraft Noise Abatement by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Aeronautics and Space Technology Pdf

Author : United States. Office of Noise Abatement and Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Noise control
ISBN : UCAL:B4263289

Get Book

Public Hearings on Noise Abatement and Control by United States. Office of Noise Abatement and Control Pdf

Author : Douglas Kahn
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262311625

Get Book

Noise, Water, Meat by Douglas Kahn Pdf

An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts. This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it—to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestial cries. Focusing on Europe in the first half of the century and the United States in the postwar years, Douglas Kahn explores aural activities in literature, music, visual arts, theater, and film. Placing aurality at the center of the history of the arts, he revisits key artistic questions, listening to the sounds that drown out the politics and poetics that generated them. Artists discussed include Antonin Artaud, George Brecht, William Burroughs, John Cage, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Michael McClure, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Luigi Russolo, and Dziga Vertov.

Author : Thomas K. Dempsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : NASA:31769000428162

Get Book

Variability of Annoyance Response Due to Aircraft Noise by Thomas K. Dempsey Pdf

Author : A. D. Spaulding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electric interference
ISBN : MINN:20000003111669

Get Book

Man-made Noise by A. D. Spaulding Pdf

Author : David A. McCurdy,Clemans A. Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : NASA:31769000428659

Get Book

Effects of Duration and Other Noise Characteristics on the Annoyance Caused by Aircraft-flyover Noise by David A. McCurdy,Clemans A. Powell Pdf

Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : UCBK:C101764640

Get Book

Airport Noise Abatement Planning by United States. Environmental Protection Agency Pdf

Author : Bob Peters
Publisher : Smithers Rapra
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781910242476

Get Book

Noise in the Plastics Processing Industry by Bob Peters Pdf

This is an updated and revised version of a book published by RAPRA in 1985 'Noise in the Plastics Processing Industry'. The original version provided guidance to managers and engineers in the plastics industry on ways to reduce high noise levels in the workplace, in order to reduce risk of noise induced hearing damage to employees. Practical methods for reducing noise from industrial machinery in general were described and then illustrated with 25 case studies all relating to plastics processing machines such a granulators, shredders, extruders and injection moulders.Noise control techniques described include standard noise control measures such as enclosures, silencers and the use of sound insulating, sound absorbing materials, use of vibration isolation and damping. Most of these techniques have not changed since 1985, however one new technique is now available - the use of active noise control methods. The scope of the revised text has been extended to include chapters on environmental noise, European Union machinery noise emission regulations, hearing protection and prediction of noise levels, and the design of quieter workplaces.A new chapter of case studies has been added which reviews many already published case studies and introduces some new ones.