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.
The article written by Dr. Karp states that the conclusions made by Dr. Field twenty years ago from observing children in Tertia are invalid. However, many factors need to be considered to evaluate Dr. Karp's conclusion. One factor is the difference in timelines between the observations. Dr. Karp mentions that the conclusions made by Dr. Filed were based on his observations that were made twenty years ago. The culture of a geographic area often modifies with time, with the possibility that some values and traditions that were followed at a particular point of time may have lost significance and may not be practiced anymore. It is possible that the children in Tertia were indeed reared by an entire village when Dr. Field had visited the place and made his observations but with time this tradition was lost and supplanted by a new one. So, it is not possible to state the conclusions made by Dr. Field as invalid.
The article also assumes that because the children talk more about their biological parents, they were raised by their parents alone. There is no clear statement that cogently explains the correlation between children talking more about their parents to them being raised only by their parents. Children would naturally have a penchant towards their biological parents and would know more about their biological parents, hence talk more about them.
Furthermore, there is little information given about the interview-centered approach that the author mentions. There is no clear reasoning given as to why does Dr. Karp states that this approach is better than the observation-centered one. The process by which the interview-centered approach studies and arrives at conclusions should be evaluated to attribute validity to the conclusions. The interview approach is also said to be useful for understanding child-rearing traditions of other islands but there is no explanation given as to why it is so.
There is hardly any information given about the type of questions being asked, the age group of children that would be interviewed. This is necessary to conclude that the results of this technique would accurately give us all information about the culture. To conclude, there are a lot of grey areas that need to be explored and some questions that need to be answered before positing that this new approach would indeed provide us accurate results.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 388 350
No. of Characters: 1962 1500
No. of Different Words: 181 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.438 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.057 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.916 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 129 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 107 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.824 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.898 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.529 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.343 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.588 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.175 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, so, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1998.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 388.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.14948453608 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43821085614 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95958446153 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.479381443299 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 621.0 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.4609733291 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.529411765 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8235294118 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.41176470588 5.70786347227 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.23950861795 0.218282227539 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0829317076273 0.0743258471296 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.117577404544 0.0701772020484 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1157493815 0.128457276422 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.143769213289 0.0628817314937 229% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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