The article written by Dr. Karp concludes that research conducted by Dr. Field, twenty years ago, on the island of Tertia, was invalid and from this infers that the interview-centered methodology used by his team was superior to the observation-centered methodology practiced by Dr. Field’s team. Dr. Karp invalidates Dr. Field’s research by conducting interviews with children living in the group of islands including Tertia. Through his interviews he observed that children were talking more about their parents. However, there is a lack of three major pieces of evidence for his conclusions.
To begin, there is no evidence that the research conducted by Dr. Field, twenty years ago, is completely invalid. It is possible that the circumstances in Tertia have changed over the last twenty years where back then children may have been brought up by the village but now, twenty years later, the children may be brought up by their parents only. If this were the case, then the conclusion, inferred based on the fact that Dr. Field’s research was not accurate, is also not strong.
Secondly, there is no evidence that the children speak about their biological parents in the aspect of how they were brought up. It is possible that the survey contained questions which forced the children to talk about their parents. There is no proof of what type of questions are being asked in the survey, so if the survey was inconsistent then the interviews conducted by Dr. Karp and the data collected from them are not of any use.
Finally, there is no evidence that specifically the kids of Tertia are talking about their parents in the survey, as the survey was conducted for a group of islands of which Tertia is part of. It is possible that Tertia was the only island, where children spoke about all of the adults in the village when asked about their childhood, out of hundreds of other islands. If this was the case, as Dr. Karp’s study was for a group of islands, he can’t conclude for the island Tertia only.
In conclusion, there are many gaps in the research conducted by Dr. Karp and the conclusions drawn from them cannot be considered seriously without providing more evidence. With more evidence he could conclude about the rearing of the children in Tertia, and whether interviews or observations are better for studying cultures.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 395 350
No. of Characters: 1901 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.458 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.813 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.663 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 129 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 98 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.333 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.85 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.533 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.4 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.62 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.196 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 269, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...only island, where children spoke about all of the adults in the village when asked about ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, as for, in conclusion, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1965.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 395.0 441.139720559 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9746835443 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45809453852 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74023707275 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.427848101266 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 576.9 705.55239521 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.060046345 57.8364921388 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.0 119.503703932 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3333333333 23.324526521 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.8 5.70786347227 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.271934152323 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106038667653 0.0743258471296 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0704925517193 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.166605992297 0.128457276422 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0835968032198 0.0628817314937 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.72 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => 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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