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TPO 22 - Question 4
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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| 2017-10-31 | ajulyav | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-08 | shrijan | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-21 | Bobby1987 | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-11 | SinaSina | 65.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-05-07 | Tulips | 63.33 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user chandr
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- Using the examples from the talk explain how persuasive strategies are used in advertising 60
- Imagine your life ten years in the future. Talk about one way you think your life will be different in ten years than it is now. Use details to explain your answer. 50
- Students often like to study with others in a group. What do you think are the benefits of group study? Give at least one benefit. Explain your reasons. 50
- If you could have any job or career you wanted, which would you choose and why? Give specific details to explain your response. 81
- Some people enjoy spending their free time alone in activities such as reading, thinking, or writing. Others enjoy spending their free time in shared activities with other people. Which do you prefer and why? 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 666.0 592.248995984 112% => OK
No of words: 172.0 155.574297189 111% => OK
Chars per words: 3.87209302326 3.80514564318 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.62144681703 3.525876923 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.90651582632 1.79077849142 106% => OK
Unique words: 102.0 93.7148594378 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593023255814 0.604071249207 98% => OK
Syllable count: 211.5 185.844578313 114% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0509696326321 0.0650381309087 78% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 11.0 4.35341365462 253% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 15.6363636364 68.503853103 23% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 9.79120874024 21.3332995233 46% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 4.81363636364 25.9943957902 19% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.9471257885 7.84667146824 38% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 42.0642570281 74% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.54838709677 4.02192344571 138% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.74888120668 3.1217529195 120% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.55 1.45093177766 107% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.950782360361 0.99851816184 95% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 17.0 39.0421686747 44% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.52 7.12997991968 49% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.207058823529 0.185688545393 112% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.144049203435 0.155154303396 93% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 42.18 47.1480722892 89% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.24523255814 0.305395592593 80% => OK
STD word duration: 0.133191824808 0.189427763521 70% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 7.94979919679 38% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.98 6.2937751004 31% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.16 3.39508032129 152% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 52.95 59.7592369478 89% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.8825 0.995987282463 89% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.321057601511 0.656000678711 49% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.24834749764 2.60215298798 125% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.92634560907 1.56821927147 123% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.41820768137 1.99336655568 121% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.39245847093 0.317803793328 123% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.