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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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| 2016-08-19 | civil2017 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 586.0 592.248995984 99% => OK
No of words: 138.0 155.574297189 89% => 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: 4.24637681159 3.80514564318 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.42743929552 3.525876923 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.03523881091 1.79077849142 114% => OK
Unique words: 98.0 93.7148594378 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.710144927536 0.604071249207 118% => OK
Syllable count: 187.2 185.844578313 101% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.19417670683 117% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.100238320781 0.0650381309087 154% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 4.35341365462 138% => OK
Average paragraph length: 23.0 68.503853103 34% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 12.6491106407 21.3332995233 59% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.30666666667 25.9943957902 36% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.04012786434 7.84667146824 64% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 27.0 42.0642570281 64% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.11111111111 4.02192344571 127% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.31476308671 3.1217529195 106% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.89407407407 1.45093177766 131% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.02129278734 0.99851816184 102% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 26.0 39.0421686747 67% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.97 7.12997991968 112% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.306538461538 0.185688545393 165% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.202844053546 0.155154303396 131% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.18 47.1480722892 92% => OK
Average word duration: 0.312898550725 0.305395592593 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.163973322762 0.189427763521 87% => 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: 3.66 6.2937751004 58% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.98 3.39508032129 88% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.84 59.7592369478 93% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.930666666667 0.995987282463 93% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.465616045845 0.656000678711 71% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.47134670487 2.60215298798 95% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.75501432665 1.56821927147 112% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.26956924502 1.99336655568 114% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.382927528986 0.317803793328 120% => OK
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.