The following appeared in an article written by Dr. Karp, an anthropologist.
“Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia and concluded from his
observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents.
However, my recent interviews with children living in the group of islands that includes Tertia show that these
children spend much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. This
research of mine proves that Dr. Field’s conclusion about Tertian village culture is invalid and thus that the
observation-centered approach to studying cultures is invalid as well. The interview-centered method that my
team of graduate students is currently using in Tertia will establish a much more accurate understanding of childrearing traditions there and in other island cultures.”
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how
the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
Dr. Field's findings, which suggest by mere observations that children were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parent, could have been more compelling if it was based on a thorough analysis, and followed a more rigorous research protocol. Indde, there are numerous factors that can explained cultural bihaviors. And each of those may carry different weight of importance that deserve to be taken into consideration when carring a research aming at understanding social attitudes. As Dr. Field was trying to understand cultural behaviors which are difficult to measure by mere observations, his study would have benefited more from an empirical research method that underscore impact evalutation technics.
Additionnaly, there is no indication that the group of children observed by Dr. Field strongly representative of the entire village. Stiil, even if that group of children was representative of the population of the village being studied, using rigorous methods of research that are based on experiments and impact evaluation, which are known to assess population under treatement and under control, are proved by science to be the best compelling approach to anwswer difficult research
questions.
Evidently, Dr. Field's finings have been porved to be biased as demonstrated by an inteviews of the subject of his study. Although the interview-centrered approach was sufficient to highlight the flaws in Dr. Field's approach, it is not a panacea in conducing research that aims to anwser this kind of research question. Indeed, the interview-centered also has its flaws, which consist espacially of the lack the empircal evidence on the existance of causal effect between the way people from the village behave and the question that is being anwsered.
Both approaches would have been academically digestable if they had included rigorous impact evalutation methods analysis of the subject being studied with strong statiscal evidence of their cases. However, the inteview-centered approach is better than the mere observational approach used by Dr. Field in anwering that kind of research question.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 327 350
No. of Characters: 1778 1500
No. of Different Words: 174 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.252 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.437 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.08 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 138 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 114 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 88 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.748 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.583 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.361 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.653 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.047 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Questions
...pproach to anwswer difficult research questions. Evidently, Dr. Fields finings hav...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, so, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1822.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 327.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.57186544343 5.12650576532 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14566391861 2.78398813304 113% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.550458715596 0.468620217663 117% => OK
syllable_count: 550.8 705.55239521 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 76.1222374955 57.8364921388 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 165.636363636 119.503703932 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.7272727273 23.324526521 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.18181818182 5.70786347227 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.157327952409 0.218282227539 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0671163588051 0.0743258471296 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0629055339204 0.0701772020484 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.096824131994 0.128457276422 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0469639120181 0.0628817314937 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.7 14.3799401198 137% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.58 48.3550499002 69% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.197005988 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.62 12.5979740519 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.61 8.32208582834 115% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.