@article {Gjestland:2018:0736-2935:6221,
title = "Fifty Years of Aircraft Noise Annoyance - Time to Introduce New Ideas",
journal = "INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings",
parent_itemid = "infobike://ince/incecp",
publishercode ="ince",
year = "2018",
volume = "258",
number = "1",
publication date ="2018-12-18T00:00:00",
pages = "6221-6236",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0736-2935",
url = "https://ince.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/ince/incecp/2018/00000258/00000001/art00024",
author = "Gjestland, Truls",
abstract = "Researchers have tried for half a century to establish predictively useful relationships between transportation noise exposure and annoyance. Several curves have been developed since Schultz' initial general dose-response curve in 1978. Although most researchers agree that the annoyance
of aircraft noise is only partially determined by noise exposure levels, many still believe that a single "correct" dosage-response relationship can be used to predict annoyance in all airport communities. Researchers continue to feed the ever-growing database of social survey results
into correlational software which yields regression functions that only statisticians appreciate, and which lack causal interpretability. This conventional search for a holy grail of annoyance prediction is futile. Noise-induced annoyance depends on a variety of survey-specific, non-acoustic
factors that move dose-response curves back and forth or up or down. A modern, causal approach to creating dose-response relationships for aircraft noise annoyance, which systematically treats non-acoustic factors and quantifies their influence, is described.",
}