Jet Noise Poll Results

Here are the final results from the poll we conducted last week on the question: Has the noise from the Springfield Ohio Air National Guard base improved since the Feb. 16 Village Council Meeting?

Marked improvement: 7
Moderate improvement : 13
No improvement: 23
Noise seems worse: 4
Total votes : 47

Admittedly not scientific, the exercise was still fun and interesting. 47 votes is nowhere near the most we have ever had in a Blog poll. The highest was 103 for the Barr property swap issue. It shows that there was only a relatively moderate amount of interest in this subject.

If you pit the total "improvement" number (20) against the "no improvement" figure (23) and eliminate the "seems worse" number, figuring in the crank factor, it looks like almost a tie. While DBs read off a noise meter are certainly more exact, the villager's perceptions are probably just as important.

Addresssing one reader's concern that some folks may have voted more than once: Yes that is a possibility. However, to do it, you would have to be somewhat computer savvy and go to a moderate amount of trouble. I doubt that anyone was that interested in skewing the poll figures. If they were, we probably would have seen higher numbers and a greater disparity in the results.