Using the example of the mole, explain the two different types of underground adaptation.

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Using the example of the mole, explain the two different types of underground adaptation.

Submitted by ajulyav on Tue, 10/31/2017 - 07:23
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 568.0 578.828451883 98% => OK
No of words: 143.0 151.265690377 95% => 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: 3.97202797203 3.82278263415 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.45807182446 3.50058242952 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.14164192924 1.80425224433 119% => OK
Unique words: 98.0 92.4686192469 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.685314685315 0.61298525976 112% => OK
Syllable count: 181.8 182.283891213 100% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20543933054 108% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0938787240157 0.0839705835288 112% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.47071129707 22% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 143.0 65.8948926009 217% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 19.7758100068 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 51.82 25.5208953607 203% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.49434385956 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 40.0 42.9832635983 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.575 3.78147595546 95% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.90592068027 2.94285465224 99% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.25925 1.39386743896 90% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.820561964449 0.967747756167 85% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 41.0 40.4456066946 101% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.43 7.59280334728 72% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.13243902439 0.19053887516 70% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.132145162011 0.157467062838 84% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.28 46.3453556485 93% => OK
Average word duration: 0.302657342657 0.308780311121 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.174247436995 0.201157623399 87% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 8.09623430962 86% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.05 6.56692468619 77% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.22 3.53066945607 35% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 51.82 59.5455230126 87% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.863666666667 0.992425383543 87% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.791200308761 0.681803438845 116% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.75955229641 2.53813033465 109% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.89116171362 1.55221717717 122% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.26432532348 1.99939622689 113% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.388561195804 0.309613076454 125% => OK

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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.