Which is better, listening to others' advice or learning from personal experience? Why? Please include specific reasons and examples in your response.

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Which is better, listening to others' advice or learning from personal experience? Why? Please include specific reasons and examples in your response.

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Average: 5 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 599.0 444.711560045 135% => OK
No of words: 168.0 116.580246914 144% => OK
Chars per words: 3.56547619048 3.81502700369 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.60020574368 3.28032121604 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.01080379851 1.8723322822 107% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 76.076318743 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.655143326166 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 209.7 141.574747475 148% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0683802082267 0.0738818816272 93% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 14.0 3.20202020202 437% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 12.0714285714 60.3232687746 20% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 10.2919128148 17.3634065801 59% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 4.51571428571 22.9064221017 20% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 3.2820675415 6.49597621602 51% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 44.0 31.1548821549 141% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.81818181818 4.0588447711 94% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.09892009983 3.18357895611 97% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.29045454545 1.46810986539 88% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.01589627814 1.01537252472 100% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 33.0 28.6644219978 115% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.0 5.28593714927 132% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.212121212121 0.187982170178 113% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.136420863413 0.154715141812 88% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.27 35.408047138 131% => OK
Average word duration: 0.275416666667 0.306236595465 90% => OK
STD word duration: 0.14977703336 0.198589292138 75% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 6.3164983165 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.91 5.14435465769 76% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 7.73 2.80480359147 276% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 63.22 45.0716498316 140% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.40488888889 1.00159221848 140% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.521986713065 0.637764685501 82% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.65738690288 2.58495923209 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.51850680165 1.68816559523 90% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.07477847417 2.15290372801 96% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.346764029762 0.343871460585 101% => OK

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The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 45 seconds.

Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.