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.
The argument is about the differences between the results of two methods done in Teria. One of them has been done twenty years ago by Dr. Field using the observation-centered method, the second one has been conducted recently by Dr. Karp using the interview-centered method. Both of them are about the Tertian child-rearing practices. “Dr. Field concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. By contrast, 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.” The comparison of these methods for some reason is wrong.
Dr. Field has done his research 20 years ago. 20 years ago, everything was different from now. There have been many changes in this Island in this period. Therefore, the results of Dr. Field ‘s research could be correct for that time regarding the conditions on the Island. Perhaps the child-rearing was carried out by the whole village a few years ago as a group, and this method was custom at that time. However, after 20 years, many things can be changed by different factors, including the method of child-rearing and the culture of people on the Island. Therefore, the results of Dr. Karp also can be correct based on new conditions on the Island. Conclusively, I believe that these two methods should not be compared with each other. Because they have different variables and conditions.
Both anthropologists only have relied on one method for their research and there is no evidence, why they have chosen these methods. Do not these methods have any error? Has Dr. Field seen the nurture of all children on the island? Has Dr. Karp interviewed all the children on the Island?
Because of the reasons mentioned above, the argument has some weaknesses, and they should be considered. Additionally, if anthropologists want to have strong research with acceptable and more reliable results, they should use both methods with each other. This is because both of them have their own merits and can help researchers to find better results.
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Essay evaluation report
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: 22 15
No. of Words: 361 350
No. of Characters: 1768 1500
No. of Different Words: 166 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.359 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.898 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.753 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 119 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 87 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 52 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.409 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.272 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.273 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.316 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.483 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.142 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 801, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ave different variables and conditions. Both anthropologists only have relied on...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, regarding, second, so, therefore, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 16.3942115768 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1833.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 361.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07756232687 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35889894354 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87119614673 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.481994459834 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 540.9 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 53.731675672 57.8364921388 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.2857142857 119.503703932 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1904761905 23.324526521 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.14285714286 5.70786347227 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
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 : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.67664670659 278% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.25712502613 0.218282227539 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0810232914598 0.0743258471296 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111292881026 0.0701772020484 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144624850157 0.128457276422 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.112379959021 0.0628817314937 179% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.3799401198 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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