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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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| 2018-08-03 | toeflbeginner | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-21 | Beenita | 68.00 | Check this speaking |
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| 2018-10-19 | muzamil | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-10-30 | rojroo | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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- 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 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 788.0 592.248995984 133% => OK
No of words: 200.0 155.574297189 129% => OK
Chars per words: 3.94 3.80514564318 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.76060309309 3.525876923 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.94843526965 1.79077849142 109% => OK
Unique words: 105.0 93.7148594378 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525 0.604071249207 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 251.1 185.844578313 135% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.150275118771 0.0650381309087 231% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 100.0 68.503853103 146% => OK
STD paragraph length: 74.0 21.3332995233 347% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 28.835 25.9943957902 111% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 21.115 7.84667146824 269% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 22.0 42.0642570281 52% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 9.09090909091 4.02192344571 226% => The average length of sentences is long.
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.89228379022 3.1217529195 189% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.56454545455 1.45093177766 177% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.47079053348 0.99851816184 147% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 23.0 39.0421686747 59% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.29 7.12997991968 74% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.23 0.185688545393 124% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.139471050448 0.155154303396 90% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 49.32 47.1480722892 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.2466 0.305395592593 81% => OK
STD word duration: 0.14463208496 0.189427763521 76% => 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: 4.34 6.2937751004 69% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.81 3.39508032129 24% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.67 59.7592369478 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.961166666667 0.995987282463 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.398820877406 0.656000678711 61% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.46800762962 2.60215298798 133% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.82070400555 1.56821927147 116% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.12895377129 1.99336655568 107% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.421370325 0.317803793328 133% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
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.