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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-21 | Bobby1987 | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-15 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-25 | Valeria1949 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-25 | bijan54 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-03 | toeflbeginner | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 836.0 592.248995984 141% => OK
No of words: 197.0 155.574297189 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.24365482234 3.80514564318 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.74642080493 3.525876923 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.17543340513 1.79077849142 121% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 93.7148594378 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.629441624365 0.604071249207 104% => OK
Syllable count: 263.7 185.844578313 142% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.109846851564 0.0650381309087 169% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 98.5 68.503853103 144% => OK
STD paragraph length: 61.5 21.3332995233 288% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 30.205 25.9943957902 116% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 20.695 7.84667146824 264% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 42.0642570281 62% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.57692307692 4.02192344571 188% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.91420565596 3.1217529195 125% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.23884615385 1.45093177766 154% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.868700740377 0.99851816184 87% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 39.0421686747 74% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.39 7.12997991968 90% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.220344827586 0.185688545393 119% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.126340611283 0.155154303396 81% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 50.38 47.1480722892 107% => OK
Average word duration: 0.255736040609 0.305395592593 84% => OK
STD word duration: 0.14289995567 0.189427763521 75% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 0.0 7.94979919679 0% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 0.0 6.2937751004 0% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.34 3.39508032129 39% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.41 59.7592369478 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.00683333333 0.995987282463 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.480052971362 0.656000678711 73% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.26104949512 2.60215298798 125% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.05264029134 1.56821927147 131% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.46129416435 1.99336655568 123% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.445966121827 0.317803793328 140% => 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.