Some university students choose to take difficult classes even if they know they might not get a good grade in the class. Other students prefer to take easier classes in which they know they will get a good grade. Which do you prefer? Explain why.

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 471.0 444.711560045 106% => OK
No of words: 122.0 116.580246914 105% => OK
Chars per words: 3.8606557377 3.81502700369 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.32345618554 3.28032121604 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.80761401368 1.8723322822 97% => OK
Unique words: 81.0 76.076318743 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.66393442623 0.655143326166 101% => OK
Syllable count: 151.2 141.574747475 107% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.115457859551 0.0738818816272 156% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 61.0 60.3232687746 101% => OK
STD paragraph length: 24.0 17.3634065801 138% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 22.34 22.9064221017 98% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 9.34 6.49597621602 144% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 18.0 31.1548821549 58% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.77777777778 4.0588447711 167% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.42914031733 3.18357895611 139% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.46277777778 1.46810986539 168% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.50123210714 1.01537252472 148% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 15.0 28.6644219978 52% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.87 5.28593714927 54% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.191333333333 0.187982170178 102% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.126694733733 0.154715141812 82% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 39.97 35.408047138 113% => OK
Average word duration: 0.32762295082 0.306236595465 107% => OK
STD word duration: 0.206826343879 0.198589292138 104% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 16.0 6.3164983165 253% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 11.7 5.14435465769 227% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.44 2.80480359147 16% => Good job. The lower, the better.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.68 45.0716498316 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.992888888889 1.00159221848 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.335720680394 0.637764685501 53% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.73052820054 2.58495923209 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.81289167413 1.68816559523 107% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.02651988992 2.15290372801 94% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.259538991803 0.343871460585 75% => OK

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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.