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Episode Transcript
Imagine this. It's nineteen ninety four and you are doctor
Phillip z Kind, and you are development psychologist at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, and you want to know what note a
baby's cry is in. There is no reason for knowing this.
It's just an idle curiosity. But obviously it's something that
you actually want to know about and find out about
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and perhaps feed into a fairlight synthesizer. Remember those fairlight synthesizers.
They were the thing of the eighties. As you feed
in any sound and then play it back and play
any music with that sound, and what did people do?
They put in burps. I'll have to find some. I'll
play some to you one day when I've got you
trapped in the lift. You also postulated, and was later
(00:45):
found out to be accurate, that is the pitch of
a baby's wailing crying. Noying noise increases. Parents experience a
heightened sense of urgency to respond and dash out of
the room almost as quickly as the neighbor manages to
get to the wall and bang on it most ferociously
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