airplane noise can impair young students

On 3 Nov 2005 17:05:24 -0800, wrote:

A team of researchers from Mexico, Bosnia, Latvia and the Ivory Coast
studied 50 children (ages 9-10 years old) who attended James Graham
Elementary in Newark, California.

And can we assume that the American taxpayer picked up the tab for
this junket?

The Ivory Coast?

Bosnia?

Are there no qualified noise researchers in California?


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Cub Driver usenet AT danford DOT net wrote:

Are there no qualified noise researchers in California?

Apparently, the only noise researchers in CA are qualified. Thus, they
could not produce the required "study".

- Andrew

50 Students from the same school? Where was the control group? This is a
sample size of 1.

This sounds alot like the study that proves tornados are caused by paved
roads. As the number of miles of paved roads increased, so did ths number of
reported tornados.

I think the researchers from Mexico, Bosnia, Latvia and the Ivory Coast need
to work on their methods.

wrote in message
ups.com...

A team of researchers from Mexico, Bosnia, Latvia and the Ivory Coast
studied 50 children (ages 9-10 years old) who attended James Graham
Elementary in Newark, California. The researchers found that as
airplane noise around a school increased, students' reading
comprehension scores decreased.

In fairness to the OP (who has not shown us the same courtesy) there is no
link to the study itself, so we cannot know how serious it is, or to what
degree the info blurb is paraphrasing (or distorting). Doubt is cast on the
sincerity of the resume by the ending catchline about a possible solution
(closing the airport) but again this line is not clearly attributed to the
researchers (or to anyone else for that matter).

Personally, I have no difficulty in believing that continuous noise from
large, metropolitan airports has a tiring and stress-inducing effect on many
people, and could be detrimental to concentration in any school placed
nearby.

Since both schools and airports are necessary to our society and economy,
every effort should be made not to build schools next to large airports, and
those who have done so should be relocated.Such an initiative could be taken
on a "commmon sense" basis, without need to spend more millions on scientific
studies.

G Faris

Who will pay for the relocation of schools in order to accomodate the
nearby airport? (I assume you mean that the schools, rather than the
airport be relocated.)

"Skylune" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com...
Who will pay for the relocation of schools in order to accomodate the
nearby airport? (I assume you mean that the schools, rather than the
airport be relocated.)


The gubmint, who else?

Actually, the life expectancy of an airport is far longer than the life
expectancy of a school. My town has had the privilege of buying two new high
schools in the past thirty years. We only use one.

Steve Foley wrote:
"Skylune" wrote...

Who will pay for the relocation of schools in order to accomodate the
nearby airport? (I assume you mean that the schools, rather than the
airport be relocated.)

The gubmint, who else?

Actually, the life expectancy of an airport is far longer than the life
expectancy of a school. My town has had the privilege of buying two new high
schools in the past thirty years. We only use one.

They built the high school football field where the old grass strip
airport was here at 4R7. "New" paved airport was built 3 or 4 miles
away. The grass strip prior to that was closer into town...

In article
outaviation.com,
says...


Who will pay for the relocation of schools in order to accomodate the
nearby airport? (I assume you mean that the schools, rather than the
airport be relocated.)


How does one "accomodate" something that was there decades before one
ever moved in?

In article . com,
wrote:

New research shows that airplane noise can impair reading and memory
abilities of young students.

A team of researchers from Mexico, Bosnia, Latvia and the Ivory Coast
studied 50 children (ages 9-10 years old) who attended James Graham
Elementary in Newark, California. The researchers found that as
airplane noise around a school increased, students' reading
comprehension scores decreased. Airplane noise was also related to
lower scores on a memory recognition test. There was no relationship
between road (cars, trucks, motorcycles) traffic noise and reading or
memory test scores and the data were not related to the socioeconomic
status of students.

These results suggest that airplane noise may affect the ability of
children to learn in school. The scientists believe that airplane noise
may distract students from their schoolwork and lead to problems with
reading and memory. For example, children might tune out unwanted noise
such as that from an airplane, but in doing so, they will also pay less
attention to their teacher. Planes flying over a school may also
disrupt a teacher's ability to communicate with students.

Effective ways to fight airplane noise are needed. An obvious solution
would be to shut down the Palo Alto Airport.




HAHAHAHAAHAH....

Notice there is no work actually CITED to document their concerns...
Just random rantings...

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