Some universities have a strict policy that freshmen must live on campus indoors for their first year. Other universities have no such policy and allow students to decide where to live. Which policy do you think is better for first-year students and why?

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Some universities have a strict policy that freshmen must live on campus indoors for their first year. Other universities have no such policy and allow students to decide where to live. Which policy do you think is better for first-year students and why?

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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 424.0 444.711560045 95% => OK
No of words: 115.0 116.580246914 99% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.68695652174 3.81502700369 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.27472217062 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.80513864283 1.8723322822 96% => OK
Unique words: 71.0 76.076318743 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.617391304348 0.655143326166 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 131.4 141.574747475 93% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0754425382365 0.0738818816272 102% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 12.0 3.20202020202 375% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 9.58333333333 60.3232687746 16% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 5.48419446126 17.3634065801 32% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 3.62666666667 22.9064221017 16% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 1.88729671459 6.49597621602 29% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 31.1548821549 106% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.48484848485 4.0588447711 86% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.72053038636 3.18357895611 85% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.13636363636 1.46810986539 77% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.779490191521 1.01537252472 77% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 21.0 28.6644219978 73% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.32 5.28593714927 101% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.253333333333 0.187982170178 135% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.187472749342 0.154715141812 121% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 30.0 35.408047138 85% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.260869565217 0.306236595465 85% => OK
STD word duration: 0.144424285669 0.198589292138 73% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 6.3164983165 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.52 5.14435465769 49% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 6.72 2.80480359147 240% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.52 45.0716498316 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.967111111111 1.00159221848 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.482536764706 0.637764685501 76% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.64246323529 2.58495923209 102% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.63143382353 1.68816559523 97% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.36666666667 2.15290372801 110% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.266623547826 0.343871460585 78% => OK

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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.