Using the example discussed by the professor, explain what cognitive dissonance is and how people often deal with it.

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 558.0 592.248995984 94% => OK
No of words: 148.0 155.574297189 95% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.77027027027 3.80514564318 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.48791127476 3.525876923 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.88555889841 1.79077849142 105% => OK
Unique words: 78.0 93.7148594378 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.527027027027 0.604071249207 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 175.5 185.844578313 94% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0224713936481 0.0650381309087 35% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 74.0 68.503853103 108% => OK
STD paragraph length: 2.0 21.3332995233 9% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 22.585 25.9943957902 87% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 1.725 7.84667146824 22% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 21.0 42.0642570281 50% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.04761904762 4.02192344571 175% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 7.98496319266 3.1217529195 256% => The length of acoustic sentences changes so often.
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.00476190476 1.45093177766 138% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 2.20796743214 0.99851816184 221% => The duration of acoustic sentences changes so often.

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: 4.12 7.12997991968 58% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.187272727273 0.185688545393 101% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.148574493657 0.155154303396 96% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.08 47.1480722892 79% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.250540540541 0.305395592593 82% => OK
STD word duration: 0.17728730608 0.189427763521 94% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 7.94979919679 126% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.52 6.2937751004 119% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.2 3.39508032129 65% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.17 59.7592369478 76% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.752833333333 0.995987282463 76% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.487048926279 0.656000678711 74% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.2765109586 2.60215298798 126% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.72680982953 1.56821927147 110% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.10355987055 1.99336655568 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.361417108108 0.317803793328 114% => OK

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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.