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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 | 85.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-14 | Christine hanna | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-29 | bishoy | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-29 | bishoy | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 696.0 592.248995984 118% => OK
No of words: 181.0 155.574297189 116% => OK
Chars per words: 3.8453038674 3.80514564318 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.66791821706 3.525876923 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.92349317977 1.79077849142 107% => OK
Unique words: 111.0 93.7148594378 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.613259668508 0.604071249207 102% => OK
Syllable count: 216.9 185.844578313 117% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0672788179118 0.0650381309087 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 4.35341365462 138% => OK
Average paragraph length: 30.1666666667 68.503853103 44% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 13.7648909266 21.3332995233 65% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.41166666667 25.9943957902 36% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.06076928946 7.84667146824 52% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 42.0642570281 62% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.96153846154 4.02192344571 173% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.95736258377 3.1217529195 159% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.04423076923 1.45093177766 141% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.22526660545 0.99851816184 123% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 24.0 39.0421686747 61% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.25 7.12997991968 46% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.135416666667 0.185688545393 73% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.0943830478541 0.155154303396 61% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.42 47.1480722892 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.267513812155 0.305395592593 88% => OK
STD word duration: 0.153651345575 0.189427763521 81% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 7.94979919679 75% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.75 6.2937751004 75% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.69 3.39508032129 79% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.47 59.7592369478 94% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.941166666667 0.995987282463 94% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.425004427129 0.656000678711 65% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.20524172127 2.60215298798 123% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.96564547547 1.56821927147 125% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.29244114002 1.99336655568 115% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.439132425414 0.317803793328 138% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.