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TPO 14 - Question 4
Comfort Zone Bias
Psychologists have found that when people make important decisions, they often choose to stay in their "comfort zones"; that is, they prefer remaining in comfortable, familiar situations, rather than entering into new, unfamiliar ones. This tendency is often referred to as the comfort zone bias. When people are reasonably content, they often decide not to pursue a new opportunity, even if it attracts them and offers more advantages. Psychologists believe that the comfort zone bias exists not only because we have a natural preference for what we already know, but also because we want to avoid taking risks.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-29 | bishoy | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-14 | Christine hanna | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-29 | bishoy | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-29 | bishoy | 85.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 653.0 592.248995984 110% => OK
No of words: 166.0 155.574297189 107% => OK
Chars per words: 3.93373493976 3.80514564318 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.58944267634 3.525876923 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.03918109647 1.79077849142 114% => OK
Unique words: 103.0 93.7148594378 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.620481927711 0.604071249207 103% => OK
Syllable count: 207.9 185.844578313 112% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.100461641165 0.0650381309087 154% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 4.35341365462 138% => OK
Average paragraph length: 27.6666666667 68.503853103 40% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 14.3372087784 21.3332995233 67% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.835 25.9943957902 38% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.05697126088 7.84667146824 64% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 35.0 42.0642570281 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.74285714286 4.02192344571 118% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.97938495228 3.1217529195 95% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.56171428571 1.45093177766 108% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.841625928832 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: 34.0 39.0421686747 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.02 7.12997991968 84% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.177058823529 0.185688545393 95% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.142241083909 0.155154303396 92% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.57 47.1480722892 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.28656626506 0.305395592593 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.149604755801 0.189427763521 79% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 7.94979919679 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.52 6.2937751004 56% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.33 3.39508032129 98% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.01 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.9835 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.57617352991 0.656000678711 88% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.81308252839 2.60215298798 108% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.74546687002 1.56821927147 111% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.16523018709 1.99336655568 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.443332933735 0.317803793328 139% => OK
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.