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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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-25 | bijan54 | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-11 | chandr | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-25 | Valeria1949 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-25 | bijan54 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-08-07 | mahabub | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 709.0 592.248995984 120% => OK
No of words: 180.0 155.574297189 116% => OK
Chars per words: 3.93888888889 3.80514564318 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.66284150148 3.525876923 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.88020060658 1.79077849142 105% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 93.7148594378 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.627777777778 0.604071249207 104% => OK
Syllable count: 221.4 185.844578313 119% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0816010545421 0.0650381309087 125% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 180.0 68.503853103 263% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 61.2 25.9943957902 235% => 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: 29.0 42.0642570281 69% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.20689655172 4.02192344571 154% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.70813932656 3.1217529195 119% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.08344827586 1.45093177766 144% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.23112585385 0.99851816184 123% => 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: 5.65 7.12997991968 79% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.182258064516 0.185688545393 98% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.107754490286 0.155154303396 69% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 52.54 47.1480722892 111% => OK
Average word duration: 0.291888888889 0.305395592593 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.147368732131 0.189427763521 78% => 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: 3.05 6.2937751004 48% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.89 3.39508032129 26% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 61.2 59.7592369478 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02 0.995987282463 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.506535947712 0.656000678711 77% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.94117647059 2.60215298798 113% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.84640522876 1.56821927147 118% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.15074229159 1.99336655568 108% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.534750516667 0.317803793328 168% => 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.