Some people believe that television has had a positive influence on society. Others believe it has had a negative influence on society. Which do you agree with and why? Use details and examples to explain your opinion.

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Some people believe that television has had a positive influence on society. Others believe it has had a negative influence on society. Which do you agree with and why? Use details and examples to explain your opinion.

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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: 469.0 444.711560045 105% => OK
No of words: 127.0 116.580246914 109% => OK
Chars per words: 3.69291338583 3.81502700369 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.35699682299 3.28032121604 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.7046107507 1.8723322822 91% => OK
Unique words: 81.0 76.076318743 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.637795275591 0.655143326166 97% => OK
Syllable count: 147.6 141.574747475 104% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0342660723074 0.0738818816272 46% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 127.0 60.3232687746 211% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 47.2 22.9064221017 206% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 41.0 31.1548821549 132% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.09756097561 4.0588447711 76% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.71225653554 3.18357895611 85% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.08853658537 1.46810986539 74% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.819698222208 1.01537252472 81% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 46.0 28.6644219978 160% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.7 5.28593714927 146% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.167391304348 0.187982170178 89% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.145100187016 0.154715141812 94% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.12 35.408047138 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.292283464567 0.306236595465 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.162699611992 0.198589292138 82% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 6.3164983165 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.07 5.14435465769 99% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.59 2.80480359147 21% => Good job. The lower, the better.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 47.2 45.0716498316 105% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.04888888889 1.00159221848 105% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.974576271186 0.637764685501 153% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.6906779661 2.58495923209 104% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.71610169492 1.68816559523 102% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.18211206897 2.15290372801 101% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.31314115748 0.343871460585 91% => OK

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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.

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.