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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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| 2017-04-13 | Av9ash | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-07-31 | Christine hanna | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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- Some people are attracted to jobs that include a great deal of travel. Other people prefer jobs that allow them to return to their homes every evening. Which type of job opportunity would you prefer and why? Use specific reasons and examples to support 83
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 784.0 592.248995984 132% => OK
No of words: 215.0 155.574297189 138% => OK
Chars per words: 3.64651162791 3.80514564318 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.82921379641 3.525876923 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.79551752431 1.79077849142 100% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 93.7148594378 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544186046512 0.604071249207 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 254.7 185.844578313 137% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0750136544162 0.0650381309087 115% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 215.0 68.503853103 314% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 64.73 25.9943957902 249% => 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: 34.0 42.0642570281 81% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.32352941176 4.02192344571 157% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.34525951736 3.1217529195 171% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.89117647059 1.45093177766 130% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.28270111301 0.99851816184 128% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 35.0 39.0421686747 90% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.81 7.12997991968 67% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.137428571429 0.185688545393 74% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.123388882508 0.155154303396 80% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 57.19 47.1480722892 121% => OK
Average word duration: 0.266 0.305395592593 87% => OK
STD word duration: 0.15145741592 0.189427763521 80% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 7.94979919679 75% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.84 6.2937751004 77% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.22 3.39508032129 6% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 64.73 59.7592369478 108% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.07883333333 0.995987282463 108% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.540707554457 0.656000678711 82% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.32148926309 2.60215298798 128% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.80750811061 1.56821927147 115% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.04581220493 1.99336655568 103% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.360219134884 0.317803793328 113% => OK
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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.