TPO 16 - Question 4Social LoafingWhen people work in groups to perform a task, individual group members may feel less motivated to contribute, since no one person is held directly responsible for completing the task. The result is that people may not work

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TPO 16 - Question 4

Social Loafing

When people work in groups to perform a task, individual group members may feel less motivated to contribute, since no one person is held directly responsible for completing the task. The result is that people may not work as hard, or accomplish as much, as they would if they were working alone and their individual output were being measured. This decrease in personal effort, especially on a simple group task, is known as social loafing. While it is not a deliberate behavior, the consequence of social loafing is less personal efficiency when working in groups than when working on one's own.

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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: 661.0 592.248995984 112% => OK
No of words: 165.0 155.574297189 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.00606060606 3.80514564318 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.58402463422 3.525876923 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.73204020423 1.79077849142 97% => OK
Unique words: 106.0 93.7148594378 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.642424242424 0.604071249207 106% => OK
Syllable count: 203.4 185.844578313 109% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.20674038495 0.0650381309087 318% => Good job. The more, the better.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 165.0 68.503853103 241% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 59.06 25.9943957902 227% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

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: 3.97692394095 3.1217529195 127% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.55027027027 1.45093177766 107% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.30266356339 0.99851816184 130% => 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: 5.39 7.12997991968 76% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.128333333333 0.185688545393 69% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.109346906823 0.155154303396 70% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 50.91 47.1480722892 108% => OK
Average word duration: 0.308545454545 0.305395592593 101% => OK
STD word duration: 0.175258266724 0.189427763521 93% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 7.94979919679 101% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.12 6.2937751004 97% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.66 3.39508032129 19% => Good job. The lower, the better.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.06 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.984333333333 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.711141212326 0.656000678711 108% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.79376904843 2.60215298798 107% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.79478496444 1.56821927147 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.08210567668 1.99336655568 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.332363551515 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.