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 concludes that an interview-centered method to studying cultures will produce better results as compared to an observation-centered approach. This conclusion is based on the fact that, children belonging to the group of islands including Tertia spoke a lot more about their biological parents when interviewed. Dr. Karp believes this is a direct contradiction to the conclusion reached by Dr. Field, who based on his observations, posited that children of Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their biological parents. This argument by Dr. Karp cannot be fully evaluated without the further evidences.
Firstly, Dr. Karps's argument needs to provide more information regarding the characteristics of the interview. It is highly possible that the interview conducted with the children, had questions which required the children to talk more about their biological parents as compared to other members of the society. Furthermore, it might be the case that interview was only taken with a handful of children, and thus the results from the interviews do no represent the whole scenario, and hence adding bias to the results. If either of the above are true, then the argument put forth by Dr. Karp is significantly weakened.
Secondly, the argument needs to shed more light on the correlation between answers given in the interviews by children and the way they are brought up. The argument prematurely assumes that since the children talk more about their biological parents, they must have been brought up by their biological parents, and the rest of the community had nothing to do with the upbringing of the child. It is just possible that the children might have been more fond off their bilogical parents than the rest of the community, and hence speak more about them. This case if true, casts doubt on the conclusion drawn out by the argument.
Another point the argument needs to clarify is how the interview-centered method is better than the observation-centered approach to study culture. In general, observation-centered approaches are more accurate as compared to interview-centered methodologies. This is due to the unreliable nature of interviews which adds bias to the process, leading to incorrect results. The reliability of the interview will need to be addressed to evaluate the argument in its entirety.
In conclusion, the argument made by Dr. Karp, as it stands is severely flawed due to several unwarranted assumptions. If the argument can provide more details about the points mentioned above, it would be possible to evaluate the validity of the conclusion reached by the argument.
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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: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 425 350
No. of Characters: 2191 1500
No. of Different Words: 192 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.54 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.155 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.152 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 153 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 135 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 94 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.611 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.361 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.364 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.578 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, furthermore, hence, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, thus, as to, in conclusion, in general
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 55.5748502994 126% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2245.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 425.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28235294118 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.22545755988 2.78398813304 116% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.470588235294 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 682.2 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.8829591585 57.8364921388 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.722222222 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6111111111 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 5.70786347227 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.177550878066 0.218282227539 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0609001030904 0.0743258471296 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0907314493745 0.0701772020484 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104625144777 0.128457276422 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.13328981604 0.0628817314937 212% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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