Investigation of Subjective Acoustical Attributes by Performers Through Ranking Data Analyses

Sensory evaluation of the sound of rolling office chairs: An exploratory study for sound design

“…Descriptive statistics were computed for the descriptor ranking analysis. As in other investigations of subjective acoustical attributes by means of ranking data [49], an ordered list from the most to the least ranked descriptors for each stimulus was defined by summing the single scores [50]. The descriptors with the largest overall number of scores were assumed as the best ones to describe the stimulus in each condition.…”