The six audio clips below all contain sounds generated by a wind farm.
In some clips there are also other sounds such as distant road traffic and the sound of the wind in the trees. Imagine that you live near to the wind farm, that sometimes the sound in these clips might last for an hour and other times it might last all night.
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Please listen to the whole clip: you can listen to each clip as many times as you like.
Note: Audio clips are randomised each time the page is visited.
10 | Unbearable |
8 | Very annoying |
6 | Annoying |
4 | Intrusive |
2 | Noticeable |
0 | Not noticeable |
It does not matter whether you consider there is or is not much of a difference between the samples as human responses vary and this is all part of the exercise. You may give them all a similar rating (similarly acceptable 2/10 or similarly unacceptable 8/10 for example) or you may rate them very differently. You might think that one sample is very annoying (10/10) compared to another sample which you think would not bother you at all (1/10). All are valid responses. Please judge your personal response based on how you rate or consider the sounds and not on what you might think is expected.