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(© 4 February, 2013: Dr.V.M.Palaniappan, Ph.D.)
Those who TALK
for long durations do NOT seem to get much of the adverse effects.
Whereas,
those who keep LISTENING even for lesser durations tend to develop
dizziness.
This has
been the finding (still a hypothesis) after repeated tests I carried out during the past one year. (However, this finding requires further confirmation through some properly designed scientific research!)
About a
year ago, as I was listening to the nearly-nonstop talk of a friend who spoke
to me from India, I developed intense
dizziness.
I asked him
if he too suffered likewise. Apparently, he was totally unaffected.
The mobile
phone I have is an expensive, branded one. I cannot blame the quality of the
phone for this problem.
At another
occasion, when a similar situation arose, I had to speak to my friend using the
same instrument, for about 35 minutes. He was the silent listener this time.
After some
35 minutes of continued listening, my friend suddenly complained of intense
dizziness.
He said he
couldn’t stand listening to me anymore, apologized, and switched off his phone
instantly, not bothering to listen to my response.
However, I
called him again on the following day, and apologized for ‘drilling’ him with
my ‘boring’ talk.
He denied
it, saying that the content of the talk did not give him any kind of reaction.
However, I
felt, the dizziness could have been due to the monotonous voice with which I
have been speaking to him.
When I went
to India after a while, in my presence, my friend was seriously ‘firing’
through his mobile phone, one of his Staff for some ‘misbehavior’.
His staff
did not switch off his phone, but was patiently listening to all the ‘scolding’.
I asked my
friend, after a ‘cool-off’ period, to interview his staff to find if he did get
any kind of dizziness.
Well, his
staff confessed he has been getting such dizziness whenever the Boss scolded
him, but not if the conversation happened to be two-way and smooth.
This tended
to made me believe that:
(a) if two people conversed in
low voice - ‘sweet nothing’, similar to what the lovers do, even prolonged
periods* do not seem to affect both the parties.
(b) If both the parties keep conversing
in louder voice, both of them tend to get the dizziness after an hour’s time* or
so.
(c) If one person alone talks
almost non-stop, the listener tends to get the dizziness after about 35* minutes or so.
(d) If one person talked monotonously,
the listener appears to suffer in about 30* minutes or so.
(e) If the monotonous voice is
used non-stop for scolding a person, the dizziness tends to develop in
about 25* minutes.
(* = These are only approximations, based on some general observations.)
(* = These are only approximations, based on some general observations.)
To claim a
finding to be scientifically true, in the first place, one will have to design
a proper experimentation, fool-proof as far as possible.
Such a
design should involve adequate number of ‘samples’.
A minimum
of twenty samples may reveal some truth.
If the sample
number happens to be very large, the result will be very accurate.
In the
first place, I accidentally found some phenomenon to occur.
On further
inquiry, my recognition appeared to make some sense.
So, I went
around interviewing a few people.
That gave
me an insight into this problem.
I then felt
that there is a definite need to trace the facts behind this ‘guess’.
This
guess, since it is based on some sensible reasoning, can be safely called “A
HYPOTHESIS’.
The next
stage is that, this hypothesis should be tested out for a positive
confirmation.
Such a
testing, as I had mentioned earlier, requires proper designing of an
experiment, carrying it out properly, gathering data, subjecting the data to
some statistical analysis, and then deriving a definite conclusion.
Only such a
conclusion will form acceptable and useful information.
When this
is done, some other scientist may utilize this finding, do further research to
try and overcome the problem .
In other
words, someone may develop a mobile phone that will not give dizziness to the
listener.
Well, if
you are interested in carrying out the experiment, you should approach a Statistician. You can then carry it out for the
benefit of human kind.
However,
before you do, it is very important to trace from the already-published works
(i.e., literature search) to find if someone has already researched in this
area.
If yes, you
should plan to continue from where he/she has left it, rather than repeating
the same test that would help only to re-confirm the earlier findings.
WHATEVER,
FRIENDS, PLEASE REMEMBER NOT TO TALK IN MONOTONOUS VOICE TO PEOPLE.
Of course,
it appears is very important to remember not to ‘scold’ them through the
mobile phone.
If scolding
becomes inevitable, it would perhaps be better to do so in soft voice, rather
than doing it in monotonous loud voice.
OK,
friends, wish you all very happy mobile phone usage.
Sincerely,
PS:
I just typed in the Google’s search
engine the following words:
“Dizziness
after mobile phone usage: This brought out the following, which you too can
click to make a better ‘Literature Search” for proper understanding of the
entire picture:
https://www.google.com.my/#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=2&gs_ri=serp&tok=eP8HYRG8eL7TXukFDyxwtw&pq=dizziness%20after%20mobile%20usage&cp=29&gs_id=o&xhr=t&q=Dizziness%20after%20mobile%20phone%20usage&es_nrs=true&pf=p&tbo=d&rlz=1C2CHNU_enMY326&sclient=psy-ab&oq=Dizziness+after+mobile
Watch this
video: it has some nice and fascinating information related to the usage of
mobile phones.
By right, I
should have visited these sites before reporting my above findings.
By not
doing so, I think, I have ‘wasted’ my time (as much as yours - I am sorry about
it!).
If you have any comments, please post them. I will be only happy to publish, if that proves useful to people - thanks.
If you have any comments, please post them. I will be only happy to publish, if that proves useful to people - thanks.
OK, bye
until my next,
Dr.Palani,
Ph.D.
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