Using the example discussed by the professor, explain what cognitive dissonance is and how people often deal with it.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 624.0 592.248995984 105% => OK
No of words: 163.0 155.574297189 105% => OK
Chars per words: 3.8282208589 3.80514564318 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.57311423478 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.0322404211 1.79077849142 113% => OK
Unique words: 97.0 93.7148594378 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59509202454 0.604071249207 99% => OK
Syllable count: 194.4 185.844578313 105% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0101411459762 0.0650381309087 16% => 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: 81.5 68.503853103 119% => OK
STD paragraph length: 73.5 21.3332995233 345% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 30.59 25.9943957902 118% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 27.87 7.84667146824 355% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 42.0642570281 78% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.93939393939 4.02192344571 123% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.75733137035 3.1217529195 120% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.77090909091 1.45093177766 122% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.22441665427 0.99851816184 123% => 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: 8.0 7.12997991968 112% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.285714285714 0.185688545393 154% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.180602732368 0.155154303396 116% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.0 47.1480722892 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.294478527607 0.305395592593 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.174472573738 0.189427763521 92% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 7.94979919679 113% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.9 6.2937751004 110% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.18 3.39508032129 94% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 61.18 59.7592369478 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.01966666667 0.995987282463 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.45766590389 0.656000678711 70% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.66426936907 2.60215298798 102% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.58548545276 1.56821927147 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.02083333333 1.99336655568 101% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.354581760736 0.317803793328 112% => OK

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.