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 examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
As per the article written by anthropologist Dr. Karp, the interview centered method provides a more accurate understanding of the child rearing traditions in Tertia and other island cultures. This conclusion is based on the recent interview data collected by Dr. Karp and the future data that will be collected by team of grad students using interview based approach. The conclusion of Dr. Karp that observation based approach to study culture is invalid, could be considered true if we get more information regarding following assumptions.
The first assumption made by Dr. Karp is that, the information provided by the children that were interviewed is true. There is a possibility that due to such interview process the children were under pressure and did not give the information about the actual scenario. There is one more possibility that parents of these children might have taught the children to give false information in order to save their honor and respect . If either of this scenario is true then it significantly weakens the author’s argument.
Another assumption made by author is that, the information obtained by author by interviewing few children will hold true for the remaining set of children. It is clearly stated by the author that the data for interview of few children is yet to be evaluated, perhaps there is possibility that the interview taken by Dr. Karp is of the children who were reared by their parents but the remaining children are reared by other adults of the island. Therefore if the additional information obtained by taking interview of remaining children comes opposite then it will unwarrant the argument done by author.
The author has made a clear assumption that observation based approach to study any culture is not correct. Even though there is a disparity between the results of Dr. Field’s experiment and Dr. Karp’s experiment, there is a possibility that the time when Dr. Field conducted the experiment which was twenty years ago, the children might have been raised by other adults of the island rather than their biological parents and the time when Dr. Karp conducted the experiment children are being raised by their parents. If this scenario is true then the author’s conclusion that the observation based approach to study culture does not hold true.
From all the statements it is clear that the conclusion made by author is flawed given the faulty assumptions on the basis of which it is being made. If author provide additional evidence against each of these assumptions then this conclusion can be analyzed further but with the existing assumptions the conclusion made by author is not right.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 437 350
No. of Characters: 2196 1500
No. of Different Words: 175 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.572 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.025 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.765 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 153 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 121 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 97 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 61 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.133 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.346 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.467 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.392 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.57 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.139 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 428, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...in order to save their honor and respect . If either of this scenario is true then...
^^
Line 2, column 431, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...order to save their honor and respect . If either of this scenario is true then it...
^^
Line 4, column 448, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...e reared by other adults of the island. Therefore if the additional information obtained ...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 519, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...dren are being raised by their parents. If this scenario is true then the author’s...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, regarding, then, therefore
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.6327345309 168% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2242.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 437.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13043478261 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82157421324 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 204.123752495 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.421052631579 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 683.1 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 77.4379751801 57.8364921388 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.466666667 119.503703932 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.1333333333 23.324526521 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.8 5.70786347227 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188947123215 0.218282227539 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0686126582262 0.0743258471296 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0705903629269 0.0701772020484 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108365621192 0.128457276422 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.062228263699 0.0628817314937 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 14.3799401198 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.3550499002 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.07 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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