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: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 785.0 592.248995984 133% => OK
No of words: 202.0 155.574297189 130% => OK
Chars per words: 3.88613861386 3.80514564318 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.76996954942 3.525876923 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.88582674587 1.79077849142 105% => OK
Unique words: 106.0 93.7148594378 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.524752475248 0.604071249207 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 257.4 185.844578313 139% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.138261906552 0.0650381309087 213% => 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: 202.0 68.503853103 295% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 60.16 25.9943957902 231% => 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: 29.0 42.0642570281 69% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.96551724138 4.02192344571 173% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.7086330004 3.1217529195 151% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.04275862069 1.45093177766 141% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.24301329244 0.99851816184 124% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 31.0 39.0421686747 79% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.26 7.12997991968 88% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.201935483871 0.185688545393 109% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.159988293016 0.155154303396 103% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 50.81 47.1480722892 108% => OK
Average word duration: 0.251534653465 0.305395592593 82% => OK
STD word duration: 0.140730489167 0.189427763521 74% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 7.94979919679 75% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.07 6.2937751004 65% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.74 3.39508032129 22% => Good job. The lower, the better.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.16 59.7592369478 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.00266666667 0.995987282463 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.515292553191 0.656000678711 79% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.35771276596 2.60215298798 129% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.76196808511 1.56821927147 112% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.08620350325 1.99336655568 105% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.460997420792 0.317803793328 145% => OK

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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.