<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>spaetzleesser</author><text>Coming from Germany my belief is that Americans grow with a lot of noise like air conditioning, TVs constantly on  and housing walls generally being very thin. So maybe they are used to that and take comfort in it. I personally hate white noise but a it seems a lot of  Americans get nervous in absolute silence and look for something to fill in. Whenever I go back to Germany I am always surprised how quiet the houses of my siblings are.&lt;p&gt;Just my non scientific theory.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aflag</author><text>I have a theory that people like those sort of white noise sounds due to plesant memories associated to them. For instance, maybe the person is into sci-fi or, for the coffee shop ones, maybe it&amp;#x27;s someone who often goes to coffee shops with friends. I, particularly, like absolute silence. The quieter it is, the more relaxed I get. Is there any scientific explanation as to why some people like white noise whereas other people prefer silence?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Landemy – Futuristic sounds for work</title><url>https://landemy.netlify.app/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mywacaday</author><text>I used to work in a noisy open plan office with multiple people around me on the same calls, it was very difficult to ignore 3&amp;#x2F;4 of a conversation so I started listen to  a thunderstorm with heavy rain to block the noise&amp;#x2F;voices as white noise did nothing for me. Now that I work from home in an office on my own I still use the thunderstorm when I need to concentrate on one thing for a few hours. I think I&amp;#x27;ve done some version of Pavlov&amp;#x27;s dog on myself.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aflag</author><text>I have a theory that people like those sort of white noise sounds due to plesant memories associated to them. For instance, maybe the person is into sci-fi or, for the coffee shop ones, maybe it&amp;#x27;s someone who often goes to coffee shops with friends. I, particularly, like absolute silence. The quieter it is, the more relaxed I get. Is there any scientific explanation as to why some people like white noise whereas other people prefer silence?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Landemy – Futuristic sounds for work</title><url>https://landemy.netlify.app/</url></story>