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  2. Dog whistle - Wikipedia

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    To human ears, dog whistles only emit a quiet hissing sound. [6] The principal advantage of dog whistles is that they do not produce a loud, potentially irritating noise for humans that a normal whistle would produce and thus can be used to train or command animals without disturbing nearby people.

  3. Misophonia - Wikipedia

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    Misophonia (or selective sound sensitivity syndrome) is a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds or their associated stimuli, or cues.These cues, known as "triggers", are experienced as unpleasant or distressing and tend to evoke strong negative emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses not seen in most other people. [8]

  4. Chalkboard scraping - Wikipedia

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    Scraping a chalkboard (also known as a blackboard) with one's fingernails produces a sound and feeling which most people find extremely irritating. The basis of the innate reaction to the sound has been studied in the field of psychoacoustics (the branch of psychology concerned with the perception of sound and its physiological effects).

  5. List of video games notable for negative reception - Wikipedia

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    The game's humor, wide variety of weapons (despite most of the unique weapons not being as useful in-game as their conventional counterparts), and relatively better graphical quality than Postal 2 were regarded as positive aspects, but not enough to save the game from a 5.5/10 rating. [209]

  6. Sound annoyance - Wikipedia

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    Psychoacoustic analysis reveals that sound pressure level is a less than ideal predictor of human reception of noise, so efforts have been made since the 1960s [6] [7] to apply loudness metrics instead, which can incorporate other factors such as spectral and temporal auditory masking and level-dependent frequency weighting to more accurately ...

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  8. List of fictional humanoid species in video games - Wikipedia

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    Stunningly attractive and kind humans engineered to be perfect soulmates, at the cost of being mentally incapable of causing harm. Hylian: The Legend of Zelda: Pointy eared elf-like humans, said to be messengers of the gods. Hussars RimWorld: Bulky, red-eyed humans engineered to be powerful soldier but otherwise incompetent in most other skill ...

  9. How an AI granny is combating phone scams - AOL

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    At first glance, Daisy looks like your stereotypical grandmother: She loves knitting and talking about her family, has a cat named Fluffy, is technologically inept and has plenty of time to shoot ...