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Explain how the example from the professor’s lecture illustrates the irrational commitment.
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 |
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| 2018-06-04 | Elena Cristina | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 633.0 592.248995984 107% => OK
No of words: 173.0 155.574297189 111% => OK
Chars per words: 3.65895953757 3.80514564318 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.62669911048 3.525876923 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.68790086263 1.79077849142 94% => OK
Unique words: 95.0 93.7148594378 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549132947977 0.604071249207 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 202.5 185.844578313 109% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0101925178203 0.0650381309087 16% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 86.5 68.503853103 126% => OK
STD paragraph length: 4.5 21.3332995233 21% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 29.415 25.9943957902 113% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.505 7.84667146824 6% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 42.0642570281 74% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.58064516129 4.02192344571 139% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.82416652516 3.1217529195 187% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.8535483871 1.45093177766 128% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.77744932941 0.99851816184 178% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 39.0421686747 64% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.98 7.12997991968 84% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2392 0.185688545393 129% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.237670696553 0.155154303396 153% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.15 47.1480722892 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.278323699422 0.305395592593 91% => OK
STD word duration: 0.145212896783 0.189427763521 77% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 7.94979919679 88% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.51 6.2937751004 72% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.63 3.39508032129 77% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.83 59.7592369478 98% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.9805 0.995987282463 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.424953255142 0.656000678711 65% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.94067652558 2.60215298798 113% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.61482236954 1.56821927147 103% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.97300103842 1.99336655568 99% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.289830890173 0.317803793328 91% => OK
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.