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

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 708.0 592.248995984 120% => OK
No of words: 174.0 155.574297189 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.06896551724 3.80514564318 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.63192868298 3.525876923 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30088990005 1.79077849142 128% => OK
Unique words: 104.0 93.7148594378 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.597701149425 0.604071249207 99% => OK
Syllable count: 221.4 185.844578313 119% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0681940070181 0.0650381309087 105% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 87.0 68.503853103 127% => OK
STD paragraph length: 6.0 21.3332995233 28% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 29.095 25.9943957902 112% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.775 7.84667146824 10% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 28.0 42.0642570281 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.21428571429 4.02192344571 155% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.44294901145 3.1217529195 142% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.98214285714 1.45093177766 137% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.26088505521 0.99851816184 126% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 30.0 39.0421686747 77% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.87 7.12997991968 124% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.295666666667 0.185688545393 159% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.203497474732 0.155154303396 131% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.57 47.1480722892 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.261896551724 0.305395592593 86% => OK
STD word duration: 0.165141425596 0.189427763521 87% => 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: 5.62 6.2937751004 89% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.67 3.39508032129 49% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.19 59.7592369478 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.969833333333 0.995987282463 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.51555250043 0.656000678711 79% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.99020450249 2.60215298798 115% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.78724866816 1.56821927147 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.28220320386 1.99336655568 114% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.407057436782 0.317803793328 128% => 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.