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Cognitive Dissonance
Individuals sometimes experience a contradiction between their actions and their beliefs－between what they are doing and what they believe they should be doing. These contradictions can cause a kind of mental discomfort known as cognitive dissonance. People experiencing cognitive dissonance often do not want to change the way they are acting, so they resolve the contradictory situation in another way, they change their interpretation of the situation in a way that minimizes the contradiction between what they are doing and what they believe should be doing.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-15 | carolinaviik | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-30 | prem123 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-04-13 | Tulips | 71.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-06-26 | bijan54 | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-06 | Aftab1 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user chandr
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- Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation. 80
- Question 3 Letter in the Centerville College News The administration has plans to acquire a new sculpture for campus. We should all oppose this plan. The university’s poor financial condition led it to increase the price for campus housing an 65
- Using the examples in the lecture explain how the position of birds eyes is critical to their survival 80
- Some people think that family members are the most important influence on young adults. Others believe that friends are the most important influence. Which do you agree with? Explain why. 95
- The professor proposes two solutions to the problem the woman describes. Briefly summarize the problem. Then state which solution you recommend and explain why. 81
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 757.0 592.248995984 128% => OK
No of words: 190.0 155.574297189 122% => OK
Chars per words: 3.98421052632 3.80514564318 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.71268753763 3.525876923 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.98805992653 1.79077849142 111% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 93.7148594378 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615789473684 0.604071249207 102% => OK
Syllable count: 246.6 185.844578313 133% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0522475208661 0.0650381309087 80% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.35341365462 69% => OK
Average paragraph length: 63.3333333333 68.503853103 92% => OK
STD paragraph length: 21.8530445374 21.3332995233 102% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 18.4 25.9943957902 71% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 5.27871827877 7.84667146824 67% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 42.0642570281 74% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.12903225806 4.02192344571 152% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.0783661043 3.1217529195 163% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.71064516129 1.45093177766 118% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.22563462293 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: 6.05 7.12997991968 85% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.195161290323 0.185688545393 105% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.172306384427 0.155154303396 111% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.08 47.1480722892 96% => OK
Average word duration: 0.237263157895 0.305395592593 78% => Maybe the speed rate is very high.
STD word duration: 0.122662928001 0.189427763521 65% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 1.0 7.94979919679 13% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 0.64 6.2937751004 10% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.79 3.39508032129 53% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.2 59.7592369478 92% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.92 0.995987282463 92% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.561594202899 0.656000678711 86% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.44202898551 2.60215298798 132% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.11956521739 1.56821927147 135% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.59538598048 1.99336655568 130% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.356998394737 0.317803793328 112% => OK
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.