Path Analysis of Human Effects of Flashbang Grenades

November, 2018
IDA document: D-9270
FFRDC: Systems and Analyses Center
Type: Documents
Division: Science and Technology Division , Science, Systems and Sustainment Division , Strategy, Forces and Resources Division
Authors:
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Poornima Madhavan, Christian Dobbins See more authors
This report provides a detailed path analysis of human responses to flashbang grenades, their relationship with performance outcomes, and their implications for the design of human-subject experiments to quantify these effects. IDA recommends that future efforts at improving the effectiveness of flashbang grenades be focused on experimentally testing the variables and interactions identified by the path analyses presented in this report.