Some people believe it's essential for a person's education to learn to play a musical instrument. Others don't believe music education is important. Which view do you agree with? Explain why.

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Some people believe it's essential for a person's education to learn to play a musical instrument. Others don't believe music education is important. Which view do you agree with? Explain why.

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Average: 8.3 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 560.0 444.711560045 126% => OK
No of words: 151.0 116.580246914 130% => OK
Chars per words: 3.70860927152 3.81502700369 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.50545371207 3.28032121604 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.90011991247 1.8723322822 101% => OK
Unique words: 90.0 76.076318743 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.596026490066 0.655143326166 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 179.1 141.574747475 127% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0677405603854 0.0738818816272 92% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 8.0 3.20202020202 250% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 18.875 60.3232687746 31% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 15.3169636351 17.3634065801 88% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.68875 22.9064221017 25% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.26903220151 6.49597621602 66% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 31.1548821549 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.20689655172 4.0588447711 128% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.695608171 3.18357895611 179% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.47965517241 1.46810986539 101% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.2101224867 1.01537252472 119% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 23.0 28.6644219978 80% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.43 5.28593714927 103% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.236086956522 0.187982170178 126% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.233921932917 0.154715141812 151% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.34 35.408047138 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.234039735099 0.306236595465 76% => Maybe the speed rate is very high.
STD word duration: 0.131849697732 0.198589292138 66% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 2.0 6.3164983165 32% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.37 5.14435465769 27% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.92 2.80480359147 104% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.51 45.0716498316 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.01133333333 1.00159221848 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.505383432213 0.637764685501 79% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.31795209844 2.58495923209 128% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.97758734344 1.68816559523 117% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.5466893039 2.15290372801 118% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.415945549669 0.343871460585 121% => OK

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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.