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 child-rearing 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. Karp, an anthropologist, in his article based on his recent interviews with children living in a group of islands including a certain island Tertia, brings into question the validity of the conclusion of another noted anthropologist, Dr. Field. He states that his findings proof Dr. Field’s observation-centered approach is invalid, where as his interview-centered method is more accurate. Using observation centered method Dr. Field had found that children of tertia were raised by the whole village. However, Dr. fs interviews reveal that children are more likely to talk about their biological parents, so Dr. F conclusion based on observation was wrong, which ultimately invalidates the whole approach. However, in order for interview-based approach undisputedly superseding observation based approach requires further substantial evidence as discussed below.
First of all, Dr. Fields observation was made two decades ago. Since then various factors may have changed the way of living of inhabitants of tertia. They may have been exposed to outside world to an extent that they have started abandoning long practice ritual of child rearing by the whole family. Therefore, though children today are raised by biological parents, this could have not been the case at the time of Dr. Fs research. So evidence is required to prove tertia’s culture and lifestyle have not been affected in last twenty years. In absence of such evidence, Dr. Fs observation based conclusion could have been correct at the time.
Secondly, Dr. Karp. Needs to prove that talking more about biological parents can be directly attributed to being raised by them. For example, if a child is interviewed, he may often feel inclined to talk about a certain toy or pet. This does not imply anything about being raised by that particular thing. So unless evidence of such attribution is available, Dr. Field can not conclude that Dr. Fields conclusion is wrong. In that cased observation based approach can not be invalidated.
Moreover, even if Dr. Field’s observation based approach is absolutely wrong in tertia, it may not have been wrong in any other cases. Dr. Field needs to provide evidence that tertia is not an exception where observation-based approach did not succeed. If there are other scenarios where observation based approach yields appropriate results but interview based approach does not, than Dr. fields conclusion is severely flawed.
To conclude, Dr. Field asserts his support for interview-centered method of arriving at results based on insufficient evidences. Unless he can provide unassailable proof for the discrepancies discussed, one can not support his conclusion
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 14.8657303371 20% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2292.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 418.0 442.535393258 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.48325358852 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.15384418344 2.79657885939 113% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504784688995 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 688.5 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.2309569324 60.3974514979 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.181818182 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.72727272727 5.21951772744 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.287938540351 0.243740707755 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0966941306667 0.0831039109588 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.09193562661 0.0758088955206 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157915373843 0.150359130593 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.084961405616 0.0667264976115 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.5 12.1639044944 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.