Comfort Zone Bias
Psychologists have found that when people make important decisions, they often choose to stay in their "comfort zones"; that is, they prefer remaining in comfortable, familiar situations, rather than entering into new, unfamiliar ones. This tendency is often referred to as the comfort zone bias. When people are reasonably content, they often decide not to pursue a new opportunity, even if it attracts them and offers more advantages. Psychologists believe that the comfort zone bias exists not only because we have a natural preference for what we already know, but also because we want to avoid taking risks.
1. Ok.So this comes up a lot when people make career decisions.
2. A friend of mine from college always wanted to be a film reviewer.
3. He was a film major and he loved movies.
4. Most of all, he loved to write about movies.
5. So when he graduated, he looked for a job as a film reviewer for a newspaper, because as a film reviewer, he'd get to see films for free and would be paid to write about them.
6. That's what he loved.
7. But he couldn't find a job as a film reviewer.
8. So he took a position as a news reporter instead.
9. For a newspaper, investigating stories, writing about events-what news reporters do.
10. Now, at first, my friend wasn't sure he'd be any good at this.
11. He'd never been a news reporter before.
12. But eventually he adjusted and gained confidents and he got used to the job.
13. And he realized he was actually a pretty good reporter.
14. Anyway, here is the thing.
15. After a few years, the film reviewer of the newspaper where he worked quit and my friend was offered her job.
16. This was his dream, right?
17. His opportunity to be a film reviewer had finally come and the new job would actually pay more, too.
18. But did he take the job?
19. Nope, he turned it down.
20. He told me he'd gotten used to being a reporter.
21. And the just didn't want to try something else.
22. It seems like too big of a change, since, well, there was a chance that the new job might not work out.
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| 2018-07-18 | Valeria1949 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 752.0 592.248995984 127% => OK
No of words: 193.0 155.574297189 124% => OK
Chars per words: 3.89637305699 3.80514564318 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72725689877 3.525876923 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.08116082238 1.79077849142 116% => OK
Unique words: 105.0 93.7148594378 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544041450777 0.604071249207 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 240.3 185.844578313 129% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.00712510135749 0.0650381309087 11% => 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: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 96.5 68.503853103 141% => OK
STD paragraph length: 17.5 21.3332995233 82% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 29.955 25.9943957902 115% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 4.675 7.84667146824 60% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 42.0642570281 78% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.84848484848 4.02192344571 145% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.30025518708 3.1217529195 138% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.76636363636 1.45093177766 122% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.10525691016 0.99851816184 111% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 30.0 39.0421686747 77% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.53 7.12997991968 92% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.217666666667 0.185688545393 117% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.163944773899 0.155154303396 106% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.78 47.1480722892 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.25274611399 0.305395592593 83% => OK
STD word duration: 0.144405957701 0.189427763521 76% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 7.94979919679 50% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.9 6.2937751004 46% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.28 3.39508032129 67% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.91 59.7592369478 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.9985 0.995987282463 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.50075112669 0.656000678711 76% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.22149891504 2.60215298798 124% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.75262894342 1.56821927147 112% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.15252152522 1.99336655568 108% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.347276238342 0.317803793328 109% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
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.