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There is more to noise than meets the ear. Much of the trauma that noise inflicts depends not only on the number of decibels involved but on where and when the noise occurs and who is exposed to it.For example, it does not bother Fran Tarkenton (the quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings, for those few who might not recognize the name) to have 40 thousand fans screaming at him as he throws the bomb to Gene Washington in the closing minutes of a tight football game, nor does it upset Bobby Orr (of the Bruins, of course) to have . . .
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William A. Nolen (1973) studied this question.
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