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Obviously, being a skilled sonarman would seem require a good physical sense of hearing (frequency range, etc.), but as as the article mentions, the ability to
by ThinkingGuy 6y ago
Obviously, being a skilled sonarman would seem require a good physical sense of hearing (frequency range, etc.), but as as the article mentions, the ability to recognize patterns is also important.
Have there been any studies or analyses to see if there's also a correlation between skill at, say, music (relative pitch, etc.) or language (detecting subtle differences in accents, etc.) and sonar skill?
- rotten 6y agoThe best sonar operators have perfect pitch, except instead of saying "that is an A-flat but there is a ghost harmonic because the slot in the bridge for that string is too wide" they would say "that is a 415 Hz sound with up doppler. sounds like a 3 bladed prop with a notch on the second blade". It was pretty amazing to watch the really good ones in action.
- rotten 6y agoThey would go to a bar and comment that the ceiling fan was spinning at 23 rpm, and the compressor motor on the cooler had a bad bearing.
- x86_64Ubuntu 6y agoBlades are numbered? I would think each blade would be indistinguishable from the next, so any of them could be the 2nd one depending on where you started counting.
- h2odragon 6y ago"Over selectivity" is considered a handicap (to the point of disability) by some musicians; when they play two different tone sets and say "thats the same note"... if you can't hear it that way but hear 440hz and 850hz or whatever, it is difficult to communicate.