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TPO 28 - Question 4
Refute-and-Persuade
Sometimes companies realize that consumers may have developed a negative impression of a product. One way in which they can resolve this problem is by using an advertising technique known as refute-and-persuade. Refute-and-persuade means that in advertising a product, the company first indicates its awareness of the product's disadvantage. But then the company refutes or challenges that disadvantage by demonstrating how the advantage of buying and using the product makes up for any limitation it may have. In this way, companies can persuade consumers to purchase a product despite its drawbacks.
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| 2019-12-14 | Bobby1987 | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-01 | mgrajapt | Check this speaking | |
| 2016-09-06 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-04-16 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-28 | paras001 | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 656.0 592.248995984 111% => OK
No of words: 152.0 155.574297189 98% => 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: 4.31578947368 3.80514564318 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.51124308557 3.525876923 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55574958783 1.79077849142 143% => OK
Unique words: 89.0 93.7148594378 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.585526315789 0.604071249207 97% => OK
Syllable count: 210.6 185.844578313 113% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.19417670683 117% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.195162299311 0.0650381309087 300% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 10.0 4.35341365462 230% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 15.2 68.503853103 22% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 9.86711710684 21.3332995233 46% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.054 25.9943957902 23% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 3.56429572286 7.84667146824 45% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 42.0642570281 74% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.90322580645 4.02192344571 122% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.80453751765 3.1217529195 122% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.77193548387 1.45093177766 122% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.01378377587 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: 25.0 39.0421686747 64% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.0 7.12997991968 70% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2 0.185688545393 108% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.136937942149 0.155154303396 88% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.93 47.1480722892 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.315328947368 0.305395592593 103% => OK
STD word duration: 0.185507546176 0.189427763521 98% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 7.94979919679 88% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.0 6.2937751004 95% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.67 3.39508032129 167% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.54 59.7592369478 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.009 0.995987282463 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.412950115626 0.656000678711 63% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.51073670301 2.60215298798 96% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.47010241163 1.56821927147 94% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.8568746088 1.99336655568 93% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.529013526316 0.317803793328 166% => OK
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.