At home with our kids, at work with our colleagues, at the grocery store with half our city's population, patience can make the difference between annoyance and equanimity, between worry and tranquility.
The differences in annoyance reporting between the two surveys were mainly due to different scales, suggesting that extreme alternatives are to prefer before dichotomization when comparing results between the two.
But Mr. Zamora seemed ambivalent, going back and forth between annoyance and resignation.
So as he joined the other All-Stars in a crowded hotel ballroom Friday afternoon, Stoudemire's expression seemed caught between annoyance and resignation.
On shadow flicker, it said: "Scientific evidence suggests that shadow flicker does not pose a risk for eliciting seizures as a result of photic stimulation...There is limited scientific evidence of an association between annoyance from prolonged shadow flicker (exceeding 30 minutes per day) and potential transitory cognitive and physical health effects".
Additionally, it found correlations between annoyance and confusion, and importance and noticeability, based on numerical ratings of each emotion, provided by participants.
The relationship between annoyance and ACF parameters showed the following to be important for evaluating annoyance: sound energy Φ 0), variances of Φ 0) and the maximum ACF amplitude φ1.
No significant correlation has been found between annoyance and the other non-acoustical factors such as age, sex and length of residence.
Significant correlations were found between annoyance expressed in millimetres and speech intelligibility in percent when all subjects were taken as one sample.
More importantly, though, we believe that more research is necessary not only to study the relationship between annoyance and health effects, but also what effects are unintended and thereby not part of the individual's WTP.
