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439. Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears

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How to Randomly Expose Workers to Engine Noise

dean was able to randomly expose workers to engine noise at a Japanese training facility. He used car engines mounted on wheels in an open courtyard with the exhaust pointing ay from any access point to the room. To double check that none of the exhaust accidentally bleeds in, we measure the c o two levels of the room. A tendecible change is perceived as twice as loud by humans....

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