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TPO 28 - Question 4
Refute-and-Persuade
Sometimes companies realize that consumers may have developed a negative impression of a product. One way in which they can resolve this problem is by using an advertising technique known as refute-and-persuade. Refute-and-persuade means that in advertising a product, the company first indicates its awareness of the product's disadvantage. But then the company refutes or challenges that disadvantage by demonstrating how the advantage of buying and using the product makes up for any limitation it may have. In this way, companies can persuade consumers to purchase a product despite its drawbacks.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-14 | Bobby1987 | 73.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-14 | Bobby1987 | 75.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-25 | Valeria1949 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-05-17 | Aswath Madhubabu | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-04-16 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 694.0 592.248995984 117% => OK
No of words: 170.0 155.574297189 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.08235294118 3.80514564318 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.61087313685 3.525876923 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.32739068591 1.79077849142 130% => OK
Unique words: 98.0 93.7148594378 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576470588235 0.604071249207 95% => OK
Syllable count: 226.8 185.844578313 122% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.167548611336 0.0650381309087 258% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.35341365462 69% => OK
Average paragraph length: 56.6666666667 68.503853103 83% => OK
STD paragraph length: 37.2767428239 21.3332995233 175% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 18.75 25.9943957902 72% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 12.9695052591 7.84667146824 165% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 23.0 42.0642570281 55% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.39130434783 4.02192344571 184% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.76902621905 3.1217529195 185% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.35043478261 1.45093177766 162% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.75966765207 0.99851816184 176% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 21.0 39.0421686747 54% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.11 7.12997991968 58% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.195714285714 0.185688545393 105% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.139200828835 0.155154303396 90% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.22 47.1480722892 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.277764705882 0.305395592593 91% => OK
STD word duration: 0.167123599703 0.189427763521 88% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 7.94979919679 101% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.65 6.2937751004 90% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.92 3.39508032129 86% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.25 59.7592369478 94% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9375 0.995987282463 94% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.373333333333 0.656000678711 57% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.02222222222 2.60215298798 116% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.74222222222 1.56821927147 111% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.07539178314 1.99336655568 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.477762888235 0.317803793328 150% => OK
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.