ANSI/ASA S12.9 Part 6:2018

ANSI/ASA S12.9 Part 6:2018

ASA Technical Report - Rationale for Withdrawing ANSI/ASA S12.9-2008/Part 6

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This ASA Technical Report provides the rationale for the recommendation by Working Group S12/WG 15
to withdraw the 2008 ANSI/ASA Standard "Quantities and Procedures for Description and Measurement
of Environmental Sound -- Part 6: Methods for Estimation of Awakenings Associated with Outdoor Noise
Events Heard in Homes." The decision to withdraw the standard is based in part on the relatively small
and non-representative corpus of field observations of noise-induced behavioral awakening available for
analysis, on the poor generalizability of predicted awakening rates from airport to airport, on practical
experience with the limited utility of predictions of "at least one behavioral awakening per night" for
purposes of assessing environmental noise impacts, as required by the National Environmental Policy
Act, on the statistical assumptions of convenience and post hoc analysis methods used to generate
predictions of awakenings, on information published subsequent to development of the original standard,
and on the findings of peer-reviewed re-analyses of the findings on which the original standard was
based.

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Author Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Published by ASA
Document type Standard
Theme /subgroups/2399
Number of pages 32
Replace ASA S12.9-2008 /Part 6
Keyword ASA S12.9-2018 /Part 6
ANSI Approved