Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia. Using an observation-centered approach to studying Tertian culture, he concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. Recently another anthropologist, Dr. Karp, visited the group of islands that includes Tertia and used the interview-centered method to study child-rearing practices. In the interviews that Dr. Karp conducted with children living in this group of islands, the children spent much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. Dr. Karp decided that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture must be invalid. Some anthropologists recommend that to obtain accurate information on Tertian child-rearing practices, future research on the subject should be conducted via the interview-centered method.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
With the information provided, the assumptions leading to the recommendation remains unfounded. The author uses the evidence that according to Dr.Karp his interview-centered method to study child rearing practices gives more accurate result compare to Dr.Field's observation-centred method hence future research on the subject should be conducted via the interview-centered method. However, the author makes a number of unproved assumptions that hamper reader's ability to believe author's conclusion. If the author was to provide more evidence to support the assumptions, the argument would be much ...
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Sentence: Moreover, author also assume that Teria island's result of interview centered method gave reliable result so future reserach should be conducted via interview centered method but we can not generalize that this method will work for every places it will depend upon social structure of that place.
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