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 examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The prompt supports the idea that interview-centered method is much more plausible than observation-centered method for the child-rearing traditions in island cultures. The excerpt from the article has come to the conclusion based on some implicit assumptions that underlied the judgement. Some of the assumptionsa are provided here only followed by clarification of the logical flaws in those conjectures.
1. Dr. Karp assumes that the proclivity of the children towards their biological parents can be proved by their inquiry of their parents.
2. Dr. Field observation-based method is ignores the part of the child's eloquence.
3. Assumed that questioning about parents from the children is actually proof of their tenaciousness with parents.
To begin with - it can be easily understood that - parents are the most closest persons for a child when it is born. In usual , children will reamain with their parents for good amount of time before leaving to the world of their own. So it can be derived that - as children are to spend a lot of time with their parents for which they will knwo their parents better than other. Consequently, later part of their lives they might not be as interested as they were in infancy. Meaning that - the children are not supposed to ask about questions regarding their parents if they have sufficient time with their parents. In the prompt Dr. Karp conpicuously said that - because the children are talking much about their parents; so the will be reared by their parents which is actually opposite to the normal customes. So, it can be said that the children of Tertia island might not have adequate time with their parents rather are reared by the society of the island.
Secondly, interview-based method for inquiting child-rearing programee might not be of so much authenticity compared to the observation-based one. It is because children are not maturedly developed ones. They might not answer the questions properly that they are asked for.They might be in a state of agitation or might be in their euphemy while interviewing, while a proper observation might help to understand the proclivity and tendency of children within its sorroundings. For instance - the children interviewed by the graduate students are talking abou their biological parents, however, in most of the time of the observation, done by Dr. Field, they might talk regaridng their relatives or the peers of them. Stand a good chance that - the children were actually talking about their parents only that time of the day and other times they are on their own and are comfortable arounding their peers. So, if that is the case then Dr. Karp might require better review of the conclusion he came.
So, looking at all the factors and discussions mentioned above, it can be evidently said that - more time and strong proofs are required to give interview method an upper hand to the observational one as in both circumstances, it lacks time ans well as sufficient evidences; pretty important to come to a proper conclusion.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 23 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 500 350
No. of Characters: 2476 1500
No. of Different Words: 219 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.729 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.952 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.925 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 161 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 131 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 89 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.739 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.952 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.565 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.308 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.492 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.087 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 291, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: Some
...sumptions that underlied the judgement. Some of the assumptionsa are provided here only fol...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 8, column 68, Rule ID: MOST_SUPERLATIVE[1]
Message: Use only 'closest' (without 'most') when you use the superlative.
Suggestion: closest
...asily understood that - parents are the most closest persons for a child when it is born. In...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 8, column 68, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'most the closest'.
Suggestion: most the closest
...asily understood that - parents are the most closest persons for a child when it is born. In...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 8, column 126, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...ns for a child when it is born. In usual , children will reamain with their parent...
^^
Line 10, column 274, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: They
...stions properly that they are asked for.They might be in a state of agitation or mig...
^^^^
Line 10, column 907, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[4]
Message: “So , if” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... are comfortable arounding their peers. So, if that is the case then Dr. Karp might re...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, consequently, however, if, look, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, well, while, for instance, talking about, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 28.8173652695 187% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 55.5748502994 121% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2544.0 2260.96107784 113% => OK
No of words: 499.0 441.139720559 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09819639279 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72634191566 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99782145463 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 204.123752495 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.452905811623 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 761.4 705.55239521 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.4278472401 57.8364921388 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.2 119.503703932 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.95 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.85 5.70786347227 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.125825998941 0.218282227539 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0495785843433 0.0743258471296 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0352681063872 0.0701772020484 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0766365386248 0.128457276422 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.019679753154 0.0628817314937 31% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 98.500998004 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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