TPO 14 - Question 4Comfort Zone BiasPsychologists 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

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TPO 14 - Question 4
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.

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Average: 9 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 637.0 592.248995984 108% => OK
No of words: 165.0 155.574297189 106% => OK
Chars per words: 3.86060606061 3.80514564318 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.58402463422 3.525876923 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.89383999739 1.79077849142 106% => OK
Unique words: 100.0 93.7148594378 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.606060606061 0.604071249207 100% => OK
Syllable count: 199.8 185.844578313 108% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.104989438683 0.0650381309087 161% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 83.0 68.503853103 121% => OK
STD paragraph length: 82.0 21.3332995233 384% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 27.355 25.9943957902 105% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 27.225 7.84667146824 347% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 37.0 42.0642570281 88% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.45945945946 4.02192344571 111% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.33015183899 3.1217529195 171% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.42945945946 1.45093177766 99% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.27570848561 0.99851816184 128% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 42.0 39.0421686747 108% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.13 7.12997991968 114% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.193571428571 0.185688545393 104% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.158697397413 0.155154303396 102% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 42.94 47.1480722892 91% => OK
Average word duration: 0.260242424242 0.305395592593 85% => OK
STD word duration: 0.142722241435 0.189427763521 75% => 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: 2.81 6.2937751004 45% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.54 3.39508032129 45% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 54.71 59.7592369478 92% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.911833333333 0.995987282463 92% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.767684152806 0.656000678711 117% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.01590202888 2.60215298798 116% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.82781941144 1.56821927147 117% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.32883092687 1.99336655568 117% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.335231121212 0.317803793328 105% => 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.