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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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2018-07-18 | Valeria1949 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-05-18 | Taniazehra | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-14 | dshah6611 | 63.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-04-29 | Tulips | 81.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-08-26 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 661.0 592.248995984 112% => OK
No of words: 174.0 155.574297189 112% => OK
Chars per words: 3.79885057471 3.80514564318 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.63192868298 3.525876923 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.89669975041 1.79077849142 106% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 93.7148594378 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.649425287356 0.604071249207 108% => OK
Syllable count: 206.1 185.844578313 111% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0469888541868 0.0650381309087 72% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 10.0 4.35341365462 230% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 17.4 68.503853103 25% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 19.3349424618 21.3332995233 91% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.775 25.9943957902 22% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 6.44590916784 7.84667146824 82% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 36.0 42.0642570281 86% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.83333333333 4.02192344571 120% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.72875365304 3.1217529195 151% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.48638888889 1.45093177766 102% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.32247275288 0.99851816184 132% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 27.0 39.0421686747 69% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.95 7.12997991968 69% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.183333333333 0.185688545393 99% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.12409673646 0.155154303396 80% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.09 47.1480722892 98% => OK
Average word duration: 0.264885057471 0.305395592593 87% => OK
STD word duration: 0.127715283677 0.189427763521 67% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 7.94979919679 50% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.74 6.2937751004 44% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.59 3.39508032129 135% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.75 59.7592369478 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9625 0.995987282463 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.467532467532 0.656000678711 71% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.01298701299 2.60215298798 116% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.95670995671 1.56821927147 125% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.45172488609 1.99336655568 123% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.290666057471 0.317803793328 91% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.