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Isn’t this really just signal-to-noise ratio? The information flow can be any input, be it visual, auditory, tactile, etc. “Clutter” is not a neutral word and

• ben_w 2y ago
  "Visual clutter" is an existing term that's been in use for a while now: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22visual+clutter%22&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22visual+clut...
• cushpush 2y ago
  Aren't you suggesting that we use the ear term for the eye term instead of the eye term for the ear term? ;)
  • Nevermark 2y ago
    Signal-to-noise is often used as a modality independent term. Someone might reference signal-to-noise issues with modern news sources, body language, or a data set of any particular origin.
• rootusrootus 2y ago
  That seems intuitive. E.g. It is pretty common for people to turn down the radio in their car when they are looking carefully for an address.