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TPO 22 - Question 4
Irrational Commitment
When people have devoted time and resources to a certain project, they generally wanted to see it succeed. However, they may grow so attached to the idea of a successful outcome that even if it starts to look like the project will fail, and the disadvantages are outweighing the benefits; they will nevertheless increase their attachment to the project rather than give up. This is known as irrational commitment. This tendency to continue with a project when it would make better sense to quit can be especially strong when people feel they may be judged by others for their eventual success or failure with the project.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-30 | rojroo | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-04 | mgrajapt | Check this speaking | |
| 2019-11-08 | shrijan | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-05-07 | Tulips | 63.33 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-10-31 | ajulyav | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 703.0 592.248995984 119% => OK
No of words: 189.0 155.574297189 121% => OK
Chars per words: 3.71957671958 3.80514564318 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.70779275107 3.525876923 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.63321600832 1.79077849142 91% => OK
Unique words: 116.0 93.7148594378 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.613756613757 0.604071249207 102% => OK
Syllable count: 222.3 185.844578313 120% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.115547387398 0.0650381309087 178% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.35341365462 69% => OK
Average paragraph length: 63.0 68.503853103 92% => OK
STD paragraph length: 56.680390495 21.3332995233 266% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 19.6166666667 25.9943957902 75% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 17.685105472 7.84667146824 225% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 38.0 42.0642570281 90% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.97368421053 4.02192344571 124% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.40654819974 3.1217529195 109% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.51815789474 1.45093177766 105% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.843510382001 0.99851816184 84% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 37.0 39.0421686747 95% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.19 7.12997991968 101% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.194324324324 0.185688545393 105% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.118562118296 0.155154303396 76% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.45 47.1480722892 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.256349206349 0.305395592593 84% => OK
STD word duration: 0.124725751052 0.189427763521 66% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 2.0 7.94979919679 25% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.29 6.2937751004 20% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.92 3.39508032129 27% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.85 59.7592369478 98% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.980833333333 0.995987282463 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.628717077315 0.656000678711 96% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.21155480034 2.60215298798 123% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.97111299915 1.56821927147 126% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.39422084623 1.99336655568 120% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.432125047619 0.317803793328 136% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.