Speaking topics in text
Using the example from the lecture, explain the comfort zone bias.
Comfort Zone Bias
Psychologists have found that when people make important decisions, they often choose to stay in their "comfort zones"; that is, they prefer remaining in comfortable, familiar situations, rather than entering into new, unfamiliar ones. This tendency is often referred to as the comfort zone bias. When people are reasonably content, they often decide not to pursue a new opportunity, even if it attracts them and offers more advantages. Psychologists believe that the comfort zone bias exists not only because we have a natural preference for what we already know, but also because we want to avoid taking risks.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 548.0 592.248995984 93% => OK
No of words: 163.0 155.574297189 105% => OK
Chars per words: 3.36196319018 3.80514564318 88% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.57311423478 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.53815316672 1.79077849142 86% => OK
Unique words: 91.0 93.7148594378 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558282208589 0.604071249207 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 175.5 185.844578313 94% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0281857857689 0.0650381309087 43% => 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: 3.0 4.35341365462 69% => OK
Average paragraph length: 54.3333333333 68.503853103 79% => OK
STD paragraph length: 37.2767428239 21.3332995233 175% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 19.7266666667 25.9943957902 76% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 12.7291380523 7.84667146824 162% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 42.0642570281 81% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.79411764706 4.02192344571 119% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.786814677 3.1217529195 121% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.63294117647 1.45093177766 113% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.14124939124 0.99851816184 114% => 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: 5.48 7.12997991968 77% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.176774193548 0.185688545393 95% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.171151453336 0.155154303396 110% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.81 47.1480722892 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.293312883436 0.305395592593 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.164283367397 0.189427763521 87% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 7.94979919679 88% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.51 6.2937751004 88% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.83 3.39508032129 113% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.18 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.986333333333 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.523825616762 0.656000678711 80% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.75430888814 2.60215298798 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.53768164921 1.56821927147 98% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.90336749634 1.99336655568 95% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.35554996319 0.317803793328 112% => OK
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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.