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: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 506.0 444.711560045 114% => OK
No of words: 140.0 116.580246914 120% => OK
Chars per words: 3.61428571429 3.81502700369 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.43979062825 3.28032121604 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.85389826461 1.8723322822 99% => OK
Unique words: 80.0 76.076318743 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.655143326166 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 162.9 141.574747475 115% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0489713367098 0.0738818816272 66% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 46.6666666667 60.3232687746 77% => OK
STD paragraph length: 24.9310159351 17.3634065801 144% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.6266666667 22.9064221017 64% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 7.51589574761 6.49597621602 116% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 31.1548821549 100% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.51612903226 4.0588447711 111% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.35886854742 3.18357895611 106% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.35225806452 1.46810986539 92% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.84849281814 1.01537252472 84% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 35.0 28.6644219978 122% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.08 5.28593714927 134% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.202285714286 0.187982170178 108% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.181770431578 0.154715141812 117% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 33.81 35.408047138 95% => OK
Average word duration: 0.2415 0.306236595465 79% => Maybe the speed rate is very high.
STD word duration: 0.136684856513 0.198589292138 69% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 6.3164983165 47% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.91 5.14435465769 37% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.21 2.80480359147 43% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.88 45.0716498316 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.975111111111 1.00159221848 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.797629899727 0.637764685501 125% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 3.19051959891 2.58495923209 123% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.82315405652 1.68816559523 108% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.36616385685 2.15290372801 110% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.376501171429 0.343871460585 109% => 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.