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.
While the anthropologists recommendation about furthur research is respectable, the method they cited do not formulate any cogent case due to lack of evidence of advantages it might provide. It is easy to accept the conclusion of requiring further reasearch on the matter due to the contradictory evidences provided by Dr. Field and Dr. Karp, but the part of the conclusion where it specifically recommended the interview-centered method seems to be lacking evidence.
First of all, the author fails to provide any in dept analysis of the observation methods applied by Dr. Field. As a noted anthropologist, his studies based on observation-centered approach should have some criteria and specification. Without proper evidence provided against his methods, the author indirectly claims that Dr. Fields analysis is erroneous. For proper Scrutinization of his work, methodology and data provided in his work must be brought into light.
Additionally, by similar fashion, acceptance of Dr. Karps interview-centered methods are controversial due to lack of proper data. Without revealing the format of the questionnaire in his method, we can to concretely justify his methods. Moreover, data of the number of children interviewed are not provided in the paragraph. Without conducting interview of a certain number of children, the statistical science will not allow such format of study to be credible. Thus, the recommendation will not be viable in practice.
Moreover, extensive scientific studies proved that children are usually psychologically attached to their birth parents. So, the conducted study by Dr. Karp might be the result of this phenomenon. While the study might contain some legitimate indication of the children being brought up by their parents, this scientifically proved phenomenon of children's psyche exerts some doubt into its conclusion.
Building upon the implication that only Dr. Karps method is legitimate without extensively debunking Dr. Fields conclusion is also not a valid scientific method. To find out the actual answer of the rearing of the children in the island of Teria, a more valid scientific method backed up by proper amount of statistical data and analysis must be performed. For these reason, while the recommendation of further study on the subject is justified, the specific citation of the interview-centered method lacks credibility.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 365 350
No. of Characters: 1978 1500
No. of Different Words: 181 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.371 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.419 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.361 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 152 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 116 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 85 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.471 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.521 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.588 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.331 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.579 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.089 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 11, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'anthropologists'' or 'anthropologist's'?
Suggestion: anthropologists'; anthropologist's
While the anthropologists recommendation about furthur research i...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, moreover, so, thus, while, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2028.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 365.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.55616438356 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37092360658 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.42800493939 2.78398813304 123% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.523287671233 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 624.6 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.7003017004 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.294117647 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4705882353 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.58823529412 5.70786347227 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.156833649566 0.218282227539 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0588868860942 0.0743258471296 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0470664016481 0.0701772020484 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0919702361634 0.128457276422 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0452433172702 0.0628817314937 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.97 12.5979740519 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.32208582834 109% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 12.3882235529 129% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => 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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