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

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

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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: 609.0 592.248995984 103% => OK
No of words: 169.0 155.574297189 109% => OK
Chars per words: 3.60355029586 3.80514564318 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.60555127546 3.525876923 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.75822306382 1.79077849142 98% => OK
Unique words: 114.0 93.7148594378 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.674556213018 0.604071249207 112% => 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: 0.022399720089 0.0650381309087 34% => 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: 3.0 4.35341365462 69% => OK
Average paragraph length: 56.3333333333 68.503853103 82% => OK
STD paragraph length: 13.9124245031 21.3332995233 65% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 21.1833333333 25.9943957902 81% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 5.08666448231 7.84667146824 65% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 43.0 42.0642570281 102% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.93023255814 4.02192344571 98% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.37153162929 3.1217529195 108% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.42372093023 1.45093177766 98% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.980386784744 0.99851816184 98% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 43.0 39.0421686747 110% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 11.35 7.12997991968 159% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.263953488372 0.185688545393 142% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.192898811103 0.155154303396 124% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.89 47.1480722892 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.277455621302 0.305395592593 91% => OK
STD word duration: 0.176095151746 0.189427763521 93% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 11.0 7.94979919679 138% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 8.28 6.2937751004 132% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.14 3.39508032129 92% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 63.55 59.7592369478 106% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.05916666667 0.995987282463 106% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.676632572777 0.656000678711 103% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.65932336743 2.60215298798 102% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.79386309992 1.56821927147 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.43122200896 1.99336655568 122% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.236844769231 0.317803793328 75% => OK

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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 60 seconds.

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.