If comfortable with noise was also charted, Japan would top that list as well.

I've never experienced such auditory and visual assault as I have there. The busy visitor centre for a national park had a door that chimed when it opened, a little doodad that sung a tinny electronic song every thirty seconds, two televisions with different audio tracks playing about the various peaceful natural wonders you're about to experience, a vending machine that had a little ditty it would chirp out, the toilet spoke to you, saying what I can only assume to be was "Hello! Thank you for choosing me to take care of you today! I hope you had a good shit! Have a good day!".

Are you sure they are comfortable just sitting? Agile is extreamly dysfunctional in most companies... When I was in agile meetings at some previous jobs, I just zoned out too. Listened to music. :)

Now I'm at a company without any agile practices and it's fucking amazing. It's exactly like when working on projects in university. Don't need any agile coaches. Just work and talk to manager directly about progress. It's just so good.

We have no standups, almost no meetings. Just focused work and lots of funny chats during the day. People are happy and content.

For me, working without agile has been a game changer. I'm never going back to that. Now I'm happy again.

Canada isn’t on there because we are too cold to be comfortable at any noise level

So how was this measured?

UK should be in twice there. Londoners on the tube during evening rush hour are extremely comfortable with silence.

...soo, what did you all do for your Thanksgiving?

in turkey I could sit on the floor of a subway without issue talking with my friends at a pretty loud tone and no one would mind

I think I would be totally castrated if it was one of the Asian countries though

I'm Brazilian and I often love silence.

Wasn't aware that tolerance to silence can actually be a cultural thing, that's pretty fascinating.

In some countries, being silent is actually an interrogation technique since people tend to be uncomfortable with it and instinctually try to make some noise, be it through universal language or just talking which can make you reveal information you otherwise wouldn't have shared.

Seems about right. But why is Zimbabwe in Red? That's no the same continent as all the other red countries.

So, in Japan they’d complain about how loud and talkative the Finns are?

This is basically why I moved from New Jersey to Japan.

You wanted to divide the countries in 3 groups, and the order within each group is meaningless, right? Because there's no way it's correct.

I'm from Sweden, and it varies a lot even inside our country. People from the southern regions are more like Danish people and talk quite a bit. People from the northern most regions though, there uncomfortably comfortable with silence.

I'm dumb, wtf is this

Ah So.