Speaking topics in text
TPO 14 - Question 4
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.
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| 2016-12-08 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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| 2018-02-23 | -vv- | 75.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-05 | mgrajapt | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user dshah6611
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- Some parents educate their own children at home. Others insist that their children should be sent to school. Which way of learning do you think is preferable and why? 50
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Why or why not? Use details and examples to support your answer.For learning job skills, workplace training is better than a university education. 50
- when some people travel they prefer to visit warmer places while others prefer to visit colder area Which do you prefer and why 70
- Children should be required to learn practical skills in school, such as cooking or personal finance, in addition to academic subjects. 90
- Talk about an enjoyable or memorable experience that you had when you were alone Explain what made this event so memorable 63
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 576.0 592.248995984 97% => OK
No of words: 150.0 155.574297189 96% => 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: 3.84 3.80514564318 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.49963551158 3.525876923 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.94278151113 1.79077849142 108% => OK
Unique words: 93.0 93.7148594378 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.62 0.604071249207 103% => OK
Syllable count: 180.9 185.844578313 97% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0926896566984 0.0650381309087 143% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.35341365462 69% => OK
Average paragraph length: 50.0 68.503853103 73% => OK
STD paragraph length: 32.6904675199 21.3332995233 153% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 19.8533333333 25.9943957902 76% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 13.1468737306 7.84667146824 168% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 40.0 42.0642570281 95% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.75 4.02192344571 93% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.19374534277 3.1217529195 134% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.39975 1.45093177766 96% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.14622529962 0.99851816184 115% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 45.0 39.0421686747 115% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 10.32 7.12997991968 145% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.229333333333 0.185688545393 124% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.187550289552 0.155154303396 121% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.63 47.1480722892 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.3042 0.305395592593 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.242141198477 0.189427763521 128% => It may have hesitations.
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 7.94979919679 113% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 8.92 6.2937751004 142% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.62 3.39508032129 48% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.56 59.7592369478 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.992666666667 0.995987282463 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.755540631296 0.656000678711 115% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.51846877099 2.60215298798 97% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.56145063801 1.56821927147 100% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.03813280736 1.99336655568 102% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.3043781 0.317803793328 96% => OK
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Rates: 63.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 19.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.