Relict BehaviorIn general, animals act in ways that help them to survive within their specific habitats. However, sometimes an animal species may display a behavior that no longer serves a clear purpose. The original purpose for the behavior may have disa

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Relict Behavior
In general, animals act in ways that help them to survive within their specific habitats. However, sometimes an animal species may display a behavior that no longer serves a clear purpose. The original purpose for the behavior may have disappeared long ago, even thousands of years before. These behaviors, known as relict behaviors, were useful to the animal when the species' habitat was different: but now, because of changed conditions, the behavior no longer serves its original purpose. Left over from an earlier time, the behavior remains as a relict, or remnant, long after the environmental circumstance that influenced its evolution has vanished.

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 476.0 592.248995984 80% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 128.0 155.574297189 82% => 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: 3.71875 3.80514564318 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.36358566101 3.525876923 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.79381532982 1.79077849142 100% => OK
Unique words: 84.0 93.7148594378 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.65625 0.604071249207 109% => OK
Syllable count: 155.7 185.844578313 84% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0227752705305 0.0650381309087 35% => 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: 9.0 4.35341365462 207% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 14.2222222222 68.503853103 21% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 12.3987255418 21.3332995233 58% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.58444444444 25.9943957902 25% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.61574198345 7.84667146824 72% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 38.0 42.0642570281 90% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.36842105263 4.02192344571 84% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.36666601641 3.1217529195 76% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.33894736842 1.45093177766 92% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.781047843651 0.99851816184 78% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 36.0 39.0421686747 92% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 10.27 7.12997991968 144% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.285277777778 0.185688545393 154% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.212713763217 0.155154303396 137% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 39.81 47.1480722892 84% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.311015625 0.305395592593 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.175240191611 0.189427763521 93% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 7.94979919679 113% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.52 6.2937751004 104% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 7.44 3.39508032129 219% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.26 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.987666666667 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.607492406345 0.656000678711 93% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.15997300034 2.60215298798 83% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.41748228147 1.56821927147 90% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.11002260739 1.99336655568 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.349775796875 0.317803793328 110% => OK

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.