Irrational CommitmentWhen 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 fai

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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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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 680.0 592.248995984 115% => OK
No of words: 166.0 155.574297189 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.09638554217 3.80514564318 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.58944267634 3.525876923 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.0687838103 1.79077849142 116% => OK
Unique words: 110.0 93.7148594378 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.66265060241 0.604071249207 110% => OK
Syllable count: 214.2 185.844578313 115% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0983377920043 0.0650381309087 151% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.35341365462 69% => OK
Average paragraph length: 55.3333333333 68.503853103 81% => OK
STD paragraph length: 41.87547678 21.3332995233 196% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 21.0766666667 25.9943957902 81% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 15.5320750563 7.84667146824 198% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 42.0642570281 69% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.72413793103 4.02192344571 142% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.43866459094 3.1217529195 174% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.03517241379 1.45093177766 140% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.67368192234 0.99851816184 168% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 22.0 39.0421686747 56% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.55 7.12997991968 36% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.115909090909 0.185688545393 62% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.106286879842 0.155154303396 69% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 52.22 47.1480722892 111% => OK
Average word duration: 0.314578313253 0.305395592593 103% => OK
STD word duration: 0.181922803732 0.189427763521 96% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 12.0 7.94979919679 151% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 8.64 6.2937751004 137% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 6.38 3.39508032129 188% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 63.23 59.7592369478 106% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.05383333333 0.995987282463 106% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.347936106279 0.656000678711 53% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.62533607465 2.60215298798 101% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.73968053139 1.56821927147 111% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.10647261586 1.99336655568 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.563703753012 0.317803793328 177% => OK

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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 60 seconds.

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.