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.
1. Ok.So this comes up a lot when people make career decisions.
2. A friend of mine from college always wanted to be a film reviewer.
3. He was a film major and he loved movies.
4. Most of all, he loved to write about movies.
5. So when he graduated, he looked for a job as a film reviewer for a newspaper, because as a film reviewer, he'd get to see films for free and would be paid to write about them.
6. That's what he loved.
7. But he couldn't find a job as a film reviewer.
8. So he took a position as a news reporter instead.
9. For a newspaper, investigating stories, writing about events-what news reporters do.
10. Now, at first, my friend wasn't sure he'd be any good at this.
11. He'd never been a news reporter before.
12. But eventually he adjusted and gained confidents and he got used to the job.
13. And he realized he was actually a pretty good reporter.
14. Anyway, here is the thing.
15. After a few years, the film reviewer of the newspaper where he worked quit and my friend was offered her job.
16. This was his dream, right?
17. His opportunity to be a film reviewer had finally come and the new job would actually pay more, too.
18. But did he take the job?
19. Nope, he turned it down.
20. He told me he'd gotten used to being a reporter.
21. And the just didn't want to try something else.
22. It seems like too big of a change, since, well, there was a chance that the new job might not work out.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 767.0 592.248995984 130% => OK
No of words: 193.0 155.574297189 124% => OK
Chars per words: 3.97409326425 3.80514564318 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72725689877 3.525876923 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.10706984906 1.79077849142 118% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 93.7148594378 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.585492227979 0.604071249207 97% => OK
Syllable count: 241.2 185.844578313 130% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0411500442541 0.0650381309087 63% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.35341365462 69% => OK
Average paragraph length: 64.3333333333 68.503853103 94% => OK
STD paragraph length: 33.5592345297 21.3332995233 157% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 20.0633333333 25.9943957902 77% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 9.42626236757 7.84667146824 120% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 35.0 42.0642570281 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.51428571429 4.02192344571 137% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.1152776582 3.1217529195 132% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.65885714286 1.45093177766 114% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.10243826242 0.99851816184 110% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 34.0 39.0421686747 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.2 7.12997991968 101% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.211764705882 0.185688545393 114% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.232637948807 0.155154303396 150% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 49.42 47.1480722892 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.256062176166 0.305395592593 84% => OK
STD word duration: 0.151869306608 0.189427763521 80% => 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: 5.01 6.2937751004 80% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.25 3.39508032129 37% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.19 59.7592369478 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.00316666667 0.995987282463 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.564877886692 0.656000678711 86% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.20651270975 2.60215298798 123% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.87738827048 1.56821927147 120% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.28652367463 1.99336655568 115% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.319114792746 0.317803793328 100% => 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.