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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-21 | Bobby1987 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-21 | Beenita | 68.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-04 | mgrajapt | Check this speaking | |
| 2017-01-19 | paras001 | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-25 | Valeria1949 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 726.0 592.248995984 123% => OK
No of words: 192.0 155.574297189 123% => OK
Chars per words: 3.78125 3.80514564318 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72241943641 3.525876923 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.79236299453 1.79077849142 100% => OK
Unique words: 118.0 93.7148594378 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.614583333333 0.604071249207 102% => OK
Syllable count: 221.4 185.844578313 119% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0396357760632 0.0650381309087 61% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 192.0 68.503853103 280% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 61.24 25.9943957902 236% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 30.0 42.0642570281 71% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.4 4.02192344571 159% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.66627449623 3.1217529195 182% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.00266666667 1.45093177766 138% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.55526189292 0.99851816184 156% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 31.0 39.0421686747 79% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.82 7.12997991968 96% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.22 0.185688545393 118% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.119596094445 0.155154303396 77% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 51.49 47.1480722892 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.268177083333 0.305395592593 88% => OK
STD word duration: 0.147154644761 0.189427763521 78% => 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: 4.92 6.2937751004 78% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.68 3.39508032129 20% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 61.24 59.7592369478 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02066666667 0.995987282463 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.506205094709 0.656000678711 77% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.13520574788 2.60215298798 120% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.92684519922 1.56821927147 123% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.2917071276 1.99336655568 115% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.376080958333 0.317803793328 118% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 60 seconds.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.