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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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| 2017-04-18 | mgrajapt | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
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| 2016-10-07 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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- TPO 04 - Question 3Evening Computer Classes May Be AddedThe computer department is considering offering evening classes in the fall. The proposal to add the classes is a response to student complaints that daytime computer classes have become increasingly 58
- Q4 50
- Talk about a book you have read that was important to you for some reason. Explain why the book was important to you. Give specific details and examples to explain your answer. 50
- Q2 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 453.0 592.248995984 76% => 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: 3.5390625 3.80514564318 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.36358566101 3.525876923 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.65313312262 1.79077849142 92% => OK
Unique words: 81.0 93.7148594378 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.6328125 0.604071249207 105% => OK
Syllable count: 142.2 185.844578313 77% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0671051669693 0.0650381309087 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 64.0 68.503853103 93% => OK
STD paragraph length: 3.0 21.3332995233 14% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 28.005 25.9943957902 108% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 3.255 7.84667146824 41% => 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: 2.2989820703 3.1217529195 74% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.38052631579 1.45093177766 95% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.838077208378 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: 43.0 39.0421686747 110% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.11 7.12997991968 100% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.165348837209 0.185688545393 89% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.167350750406 0.155154303396 108% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.0 47.1480722892 95% => OK
Average word duration: 0.3515625 0.305395592593 115% => OK
STD word duration: 0.192249989841 0.189427763521 101% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 15.0 7.94979919679 189% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 10.88 6.2937751004 173% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.14 3.39508032129 63% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.01 59.7592369478 94% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9335 0.995987282463 94% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.767720049991 0.656000678711 117% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.28530619532 2.60215298798 88% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.44617032673 1.56821927147 92% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.8 1.99336655568 90% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.35797640625 0.317803793328 113% => 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.