Using points and examples from the talk, describe the two defense mechanisms mentioned by the professor.

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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: 577.0 578.828451883 100% => OK
No of words: 167.0 151.265690377 110% => OK
Chars per words: 3.45508982036 3.82278263415 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.59483629437 3.50058242952 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.72930565425 1.80425224433 96% => OK
Unique words: 86.0 92.4686192469 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.51497005988 0.61298525976 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 198.0 182.283891213 109% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20543933054 100% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0705438438192 0.0839705835288 84% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.47071129707 45% => OK
Average paragraph length: 84.0 65.8948926009 127% => OK
STD paragraph length: 69.0 19.7758100068 349% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 29.48 25.5208953607 116% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 22.86 7.49434385956 305% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 50.0 42.9832635983 116% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.34 3.78147595546 88% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.51345983327 2.94285465224 119% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.143 1.39386743896 82% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.938899888167 0.967747756167 97% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 54.0 40.4456066946 134% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 11.38 7.59280334728 150% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.210740740741 0.19053887516 111% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.214405740766 0.157467062838 136% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 44.06 46.3453556485 95% => OK
Average word duration: 0.263832335329 0.308780311121 85% => OK
STD word duration: 0.164443305218 0.201157623399 82% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 8.09623430962 74% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.57 6.56692468619 70% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.98 3.53066945607 28% => Good job. The lower, the better.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.96 59.5455230126 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.982666666667 0.992425383543 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.915875169607 0.681803438845 134% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.83242876526 2.53813033465 112% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.45861601085 1.55221717717 94% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.95188379483 1.99939622689 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.280564676647 0.309613076454 91% => 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.