Response to the Plan for an Additional Lighting System
I oppose the university’s plan to purchase an additional outdoor lighting system. The university says it would make our historic campus more attractive by illuminating our buildings at night. However, the university would spend an extra $1,000 per month for electricity. Instead, I recommend the money be used to complete the library renovation project as quickly as possible.
That’s not the only reason we shouldn't get the new system. These powerful lights would brighten the sky as well as the buildings and seriously interfere with the use of our astronomy equipment. Our academic mission must come first - and the practice of astronomy is done best when the sky is darkest.
—R. N. Heinrich, Professor of Astronomy
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 714.0 593.389002037 120% => OK
No of words: 169.0 154.784114053 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.22485207101 3.82920900774 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.60555127546 3.52088357496 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.28638318202 1.81998168104 126% => OK
Unique words: 99.0 93.7942973523 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.585798816568 0.608046397892 96% => OK
Syllable count: 225.9 185.724439919 122% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0886175168692 0.0833886788687 106% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 3.90020366599 128% => OK
Average paragraph length: 33.8 71.3690273242 47% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 15.9047162817 24.1299301424 66% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 11.904 26.8388033085 44% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 4.68249335291 8.89323425527 53% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 40.266802444 79% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.28125 4.20756893501 126% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.1324506576 3.23972648638 128% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.7953125 1.51236819293 119% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.02074722745 1.0352206224 99% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 27.0 37.9022403259 71% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.85 7.22384928717 81% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.216666666667 0.193825474362 112% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.194384117626 0.16431695912 118% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.74 46.6644602851 104% => OK
Average word duration: 0.288402366864 0.304040633073 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.175594824078 0.193491353168 91% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 8.88594704684 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.35 6.97134419552 77% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.9 3.21433808554 90% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.52 59.1375356415 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.992 0.985625594026 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.453629032258 0.643888735843 70% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.83938172043 2.61565628039 109% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.66330645161 1.58604529434 105% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.03118588428 2.01333574461 101% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.536532260355 0.322651457988 166% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.