Research! Fun!

So in class this week we learned about communication theories and research and then were tasked with carrying out research in our groups on different sound levels on and around campus. so let's talk about how it went!

My group chose to stick together and have everyone go to all of our testing sites. While this seemed like a good idea because everyone could contribute to our observations, it also added an extra variable to the sites we tested since we are not the quietest bunch.

I was in charge of the recordings (mainly because most people in the group hadn't bothered to download any of the apps) and I did have a hard time navigating the NIOSH app and understanding what all the results meant. Other people in my group were able to so we worked together to record all the info we needed.

One thing that I found really interesting about all the places that we visited was that there wasn't really much of a difference in the average decibels, they were all in the 60-70 range, which is a good thing for our ears.

When we went to the Junction to test the noise levels there we encountered something that made me think about new research we could do on noise. While the Junction seating area was mostly comprised of youth from Midwood who were engaged in raucous laughter, play fighting and other tomfoolery but there was one sole old lady who was trying her luck on scratch-offs quietly. I would like to do research on noise levels of different ages by going to an elementary school a high school, and a retirement home and recording sound levels of each place.