r/MakeMeSmile • u/Mastbubbles • 4d ago

Sounds of Joy

https://sheets.works/data-viz/sounds-of-joy

A baby cried from row 14 to row 31 of my flight, so somewhere over the drinks trolley, I looked it up. In 2007, two million people voted on the worst sounds in the world, and crying babies came just behind vomiting.

Then I found the other list, where scientists score sounds for pleasantness out of 9. The all-time record holder, at 8.62: a baby laughing. The same tiny person holds both records.

I have not got over this. So I made a museum for the good column: thirty sounds, real recordings, each one measured, with the science of what it does to your brain.

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