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TPO 18 - Question 4
Relict Behavior
In general, animals act in ways that help them to survive within their specific habitats. However, sometimes an animal species may display a behavior that no longer serves a clear purpose. The original purpose for the behavior may have disappeared long ago, even thousands of years before. These behaviors, known as relict behaviors, were useful to the animal when the species' habitat was different: but now, because of changed conditions, the behavior no longer serves its original purpose. Left over from an earlier time, the behavior remains as a relict, or remnant, long after the environmental circumstance that influenced its evolution has vanished.
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- TPO 17 - Question 4RitualizationSociobiologists believe that some communicative behavior in animals is developed through a process called ritualization. In this process, the purpose of a given behavior changes over time—a behavior that originally had a 80
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 590.0 592.248995984 100% => OK
No of words: 154.0 155.574297189 99% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.83116883117 3.80514564318 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.52273666998 3.525876923 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.86841552014 1.79077849142 104% => OK
Unique words: 98.0 93.7148594378 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.636363636364 0.604071249207 105% => OK
Syllable count: 182.7 185.844578313 98% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0303905147616 0.0650381309087 47% => 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: 9.0 4.35341365462 207% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 17.1111111111 68.503853103 25% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 11.5896931648 21.3332995233 54% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.14111111111 25.9943957902 24% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.06118330989 7.84667146824 52% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 38.0 42.0642570281 90% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.05263157895 4.02192344571 101% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.6749064757 3.1217529195 86% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.35552631579 1.45093177766 93% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.878185022372 0.99851816184 88% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 28.0 39.0421686747 72% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.21 7.12997991968 73% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.186071428571 0.185688545393 100% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.155479426423 0.155154303396 100% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.0 47.1480722892 91% => OK
Average word duration: 0.279220779221 0.305395592593 91% => OK
STD word duration: 0.152603094671 0.189427763521 81% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 7.94979919679 88% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.09 6.2937751004 81% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.13 3.39508032129 151% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.27 59.7592369478 92% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.921166666667 0.995987282463 92% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.506603944274 0.656000678711 77% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.7863216935 2.60215298798 107% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.77311380496 1.56821927147 113% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.27906976744 1.99336655568 114% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.321587662338 0.317803793328 101% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.