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, an anthropologist, shows a comparison between his and Dr. Field's study on the Tertia village children. Dr. Karp is adamant on proving Dr. Field's observation as incorrect as his interviews with the children living in the group of Island's is opposite to what Dr. Field had claimed. Although these observations are different, there is a lack of evidence while determing which one is true.
Firstly, Dr. Field had taken these observations twenty years ago which quite a long period of time. Within twenty years, the cultures and traditions change in a society. In this sophisticated world, change is only permanent thing as we are growing exponentially. If twenty years ago, people living in Tertia village were close and belonged to one big ethnic race, then all the adults might have taken care of all of their children. In this case, the study made by Dr. Field is not invalid. In order to strengthen the argument, a brief research should be done to find out the behavior and ancestors link of the people living in Tertia village now.
Secondly, Dr. Karp has mentioned that observation-centered approach for cultures is invalid as it gives inappropriate results that children living in the Tertia village were reared by the entire village and not just by their biological parents. Just because one set of observation was incorrect the entire approach is being undermined. If the obseration-centered approach was more fruitful while establishing relations between various cultures, then the statement given by Dr. Karp for Dr. Fields approach does not hold water.
Lastly, Dr. Karp's interview-centered approach is proved to be working well for understanding child-rearing traditions but on what parameters is this approach being accessed. Does it have the neccessary questions required for the childrens to answer? And on what age group is this approach focusing on? There are quite a few doubts that are to be answered by interview based study as the article does not give much details on it.
To conclude, the arugument given in the article lacks evidence on the above mentioned concerns and assumptions. If there is systematic research provided along with the comparative study on both the approaches, then the argument can hold some reliabilty on making one of the anthropologists or both, to have a better conclusion.
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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: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 385 350
No. of Characters: 1935 1500
No. of Different Words: 194 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.43 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.026 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.006 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 136 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 105 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 78 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.389 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.506 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.389 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.31 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.502 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.088 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.9520958084 23% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1975.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 385.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12987012987 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4296068528 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06460486885 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.509090909091 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 601.2 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => 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: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.3907898885 57.8364921388 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.722222222 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3888888889 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.70786347227 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.338656213543 0.218282227539 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0984647107378 0.0743258471296 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.118816807662 0.0701772020484 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177623382843 0.128457276422 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.131809446896 0.0628817314937 210% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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