Human hearing perceives huge physical sound intensity changes as barely different

Evidence

in fact it doesn’t register to my ears as a big change, another indication of how broadly tuned our hearing is. — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 97

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 97
• XREF: connects to: A modest decibel jump like ambient-to-bus represents a near-8000-fold sound increase — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 97; Perceived loudness and physical sound intensity follow different, non-intuitive mathematical scales — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 53; Sound measurement has shifted from flat physical scales toward human-perception-weighted scales — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 440 (+11 more)

Library Connections

• Perceived loudness and physical sound intensity follow different, non-intuitive mathematical scales #corroborates (0.95) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 53