Assessment phase

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Setup phase
Submission phase
  • Task info Open for submissions from Friday, 25 January 2019, 10:00 AM (1919 days ago)
  • Task info Submissions deadline: Friday, 15 February 2019, 6:00 PM (1898 days ago)
Assessment phase
Current phase
  • Task info Assessment deadline: Thursday, 28 February 2019, 8:00 PM (1885 days ago)
Grading evaluation phase
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Instructions for assessment

Perform the two tasks in the assessment phase (DL 28 February at 20). 

1. Answer the two questions (task 1) of your fellow student. If needed, read again the document and/or use any other documents you find. Make a clear citation to the information you use for your answers.

2. Peer-review the quality of the opinion (task 2) of your fellow student. Evaluate, whether the following viewpoints are covered in the opinion (yes/no).

  1. the opinion has a title that hits to the point (yes/no)
  2. radio waves do not ionize molecules (yes/no)
  3. radio waves are proved only to heat the tissue (mobile phone typically < 0.3 oC which is not shown to be harmful)
  4. radio waves are not shown to cause cancer (yes/no)
  5. safety limits (e.g., SAR, specific absorption rate) are regulated by the authorities to limit the RF exposure/heating (yes/no)
  6. STUK is the (highest) authority in Finland who regulates and monitors the safety limits (yes/no)
  7. in normal life, the largest exposure of RF power is typically caused by a mobile phone in “talk position” (used without hands free) (yes/no)
  8. increasing the distance from the antenna is the best way how to protect against the RF exposure, examples mentioned (e.g., hands free) (yes/no)
  9. radio waves attenuate inversely proportional to the square of the distance (the Friis formula!) (yes/no)
  10. reliable references mentioned, such as STUK articles (yes/no)
  11. idiomatic fluent language (yes/no)



Assigned submissions to assess