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... 12 Measuring noise is complex. It is not the intent of this synthesis to delve into this topic in great detail, but to provide a broad overview.
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... 13 The tactic of assigning penalties treats the assumed excess of annoyance of helicopter noise as a simple problem of measurement, while ignoring the underlying causes of the supposed excess annoyance. However, since the evidence supporting the assumption of excess annoyance is not definitive, the issue may not simply be one of physical measurement.

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