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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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| 2018-09-14 | mgrajapt | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user ajulyav
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 595.0 592.248995984 100% => OK
No of words: 151.0 155.574297189 97% => 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: 3.94039735099 3.80514564318 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.50545371207 3.525876923 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.8168883526 1.79077849142 101% => OK
Unique words: 102.0 93.7148594378 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.675496688742 0.604071249207 112% => OK
Syllable count: 179.1 185.844578313 96% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.042558164445 0.0650381309087 65% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 153.0 68.503853103 223% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 59.98 25.9943957902 231% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 47.0 42.0642570281 112% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.21276595745 4.02192344571 80% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.01722833368 3.1217529195 97% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.23446808511 1.45093177766 85% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.926015965376 0.99851816184 93% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 41.0 39.0421686747 105% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.49 7.12997991968 91% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.158292682927 0.185688545393 85% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.154586820487 0.155154303396 100% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.15 47.1480722892 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.312251655629 0.305395592593 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.170337305358 0.189427763521 90% => 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: 3.68 6.2937751004 58% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.52 3.39508032129 104% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.98 59.7592369478 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.999666666667 0.995987282463 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.683561187062 0.656000678711 104% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.51750583528 2.60215298798 97% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.70056685562 1.56821927147 108% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.16330858961 1.99336655568 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.303601529801 0.317803793328 96% => OK
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.