Citation:
Peter Brooker, ANASE: Lessons from 'Unreliable Findings' Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference, 10-11 April 2008, Widening Horizons in Acoustic Research. Vol. 30. Pt.2.
Abstract:
In late 2007, the ANASE (Attitudes to Noise from Aviation Sources in England) report was
published. It claimed that people are increasingly annoyed by aircraft noise, and it estimated how
much they would be willing to pay to get rid of it. But its quantitative ‘findings were rejected as
unreliable by the Department for Transport’ (BBC website). The project’s managers were warned in
its early stages that the work would fail to deliver good value for money and not meet accepted
technical/statistical standards. How and why did it fail? What were the methodological and project
management failings? What are the lessons for acoustics professionals?
