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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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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 600.0 592.248995984 101% => OK
No of words: 159.0 155.574297189 102% => OK
Chars per words: 3.77358490566 3.80514564318 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55098862472 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.69321445741 1.79077849142 95% => OK
Unique words: 92.0 93.7148594378 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578616352201 0.604071249207 96% => OK
Syllable count: 196.2 185.844578313 106% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0464924899568 0.0650381309087 71% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 79.5 68.503853103 116% => OK
STD paragraph length: 45.5 21.3332995233 213% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 30.315 25.9943957902 117% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 17.865 7.84667146824 228% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 48.0 42.0642570281 114% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.3125 4.02192344571 82% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.77756075541 3.1217529195 89% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.24270833333 1.45093177766 86% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.853040492355 0.99851816184 85% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 47.0 39.0421686747 120% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.8 7.12997991968 137% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.208510638298 0.185688545393 112% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.179715836257 0.155154303396 116% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.76 47.1480722892 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.300377358491 0.305395592593 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.172093607673 0.189427763521 91% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 13.0 7.94979919679 164% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 9.34 6.2937751004 148% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.99 3.39508032129 29% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.63 59.7592369478 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.0105 0.995987282463 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.77519379845 0.656000678711 118% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.62246412667 2.60215298798 101% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.51740062675 1.56821927147 97% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.92629815745 1.99336655568 97% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.330953433962 0.317803793328 104% => OK
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 19.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.