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TPO 18 - Question 4
Relict Behavior
In general, animals act in ways that help them to survive within their specific habitats. However, sometimes an animal species may display a behavior that no longer serves a clear purpose. The original purpose for the behavior may have disappeared long ago, even thousands of years before. These behaviors, known as relict behaviors, were useful to the animal when the species' habitat was different: but now, because of changed conditions, the behavior no longer serves its original purpose. Left over from an earlier time, the behavior remains as a relict, or remnant, long after the environmental circumstance that influenced its evolution has vanished.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2017-01-01 | mgrajapt | Check this speaking | |
| 2017-01-12 | paras001 | Check this speaking | |
| 2016-08-30 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-02-28 | -vv- | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-20 | Valeria1949 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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- Some people have one career throughout their lives. Other people do different kinds of work at different points in their lives. Which do you think is better? Explain why. 74
- Using examples from the talk, describe how persuasive strategies are used in advertising. 80
- Some people prefer to travel alone, other people prefer to join tour group, which do you prefer and why? Include details and examples to support your explanation. 70
- TPO43
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 514.0 592.248995984 87% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 144.0 155.574297189 93% => 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: 3.56944444444 3.80514564318 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.46410161514 3.525876923 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.56636866748 1.79077849142 87% => OK
Unique words: 84.0 93.7148594378 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.583333333333 0.604071249207 97% => OK
Syllable count: 156.6 185.844578313 84% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0653114586851 0.0650381309087 100% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 9.0 4.35341365462 207% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 16.0 68.503853103 23% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 13.1909059583 21.3332995233 62% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.60777777778 25.9943957902 25% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.96343469289 7.84667146824 63% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 37.0 42.0642570281 88% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.89189189189 4.02192344571 97% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.03834755751 3.1217529195 97% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.50378378378 1.45093177766 104% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.9459539768 0.99851816184 95% => 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: 5.49 7.12997991968 77% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.177096774194 0.185688545393 95% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.170959220725 0.155154303396 110% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.25 47.1480722892 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.335069444444 0.305395592593 110% => OK
STD word duration: 0.228257276043 0.189427763521 120% => It may have hesitations.
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 11.0 7.94979919679 138% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 9.42 6.2937751004 150% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.88 3.39508032129 114% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.47 59.7592369478 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.991166666667 0.995987282463 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.521271229191 0.656000678711 79% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.4213889356 2.60215298798 93% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.4124768791 1.56821927147 90% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.74093264249 1.99336655568 87% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.343451284722 0.317803793328 108% => OK
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.