Report on Human Response to the Sonic Boom (1968) / Chapter Skim
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These much needed facilities should be able to simulate faithfully both the low and high frequency features of the sonic boom. New as well as now-existing simulation facilities should be made available to qualified investigators and should incorporate design features that will permit easy change and modification.
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Analytical laboratory studies could provide information on how loudness, annoyance, and other psychological correlates depend on the various physical parameters of the sonic boom. Field studies should aim at the sociological responses to sonic booms of different overpressures and shapes under various environmental conditions.
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Might there be a significant subgroup in the population in whom any audible booms would cause severe loss of sleep? Social Psychological Studies of the distribution of individual responses should be conducted in such a way as to enhance our understanding of social psychological responses, to permit prediction of the responses of larger populations than those so far studied under boom exposure, and to identify special subgroups in the population whose responses may in some way be unusual.
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Survey subgroups could include those who: think SSTs are inevitable, are associated with the aircraft industry, habitually question political authority, have a special sensitivity to noise and have a history of frequent complaints. Such knowledge is important as a basis for anticipating the probable responses of other segments of the population who may share these characteristics in varying degrees.
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Such research should test also the effects of different patterns of exposure to booms; e.g., frequency versus intensity, and such specific questions as whether persons exposed to booms become more or less tolerant of them over the course of time, whether booms in a noisy community are the "straw that breaks the camel's back" or are merely one of many minor irritants. Community response studies are required because a community is a structured system whose response does not relate in a simple way to the responses of members that comprise the community.
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There are, however, many opportunities for measurement which are most valuable yet fall far short of the ultimate attainment of a measure of common utility for all costs and benefits. For example, the Edwards Air Force Base experiment has increased our ability to translate the acceptability of sonic booms into equivalent levels of perceived noise for noise of jet airplanes and has given us new insight into probable public response to presently contemplated SSTs.
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