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 above issue is provided a contradiction between two well known scientists. One stated that when twenty years ago he visited an island of Tertia, he evidenced that the children were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. On the contradiction of the statement made by the first scientist another scientist told that when he recently visited the same village he saw completely antithetical circumstance. He evidenced that those children spend much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village and thus he concluded that his hypothesis is much more accurate than the previous one and it should be used to understand the child rearing traditions in the island of Tertia. This anomalous evidences made by the scientists provide an interesting field for argument and as well as create a more ambiguous and vague condition.
The major point which is needed to underscore here is that the first statement made by the anthropologist before twenty years ago and the second statement is made by evidencing the current condition of the island of Tertia. We cannot neglect the time difference between the two statements. There is a huge possibility that twenty years ago the children are reared by the entire village rather than their own biological parents. However, as the world is changing very mutable and it can be possible that now the children of the island of Tertia are reared by their own biological parents. Consequently, there is a huge time gap between two statements and it may be possible that the above statement is also right.
Another most important point to highlight is that in the above argument, it is not clearly mentioned that the whole observation was studied on all the villagers of Tertia. It can be possible that the above observation is applied on between a few children of the island of Tertia. Only by comparing the circumstances and thoughts of a few children we can able to make a conclusion. We need accurate and commensurate evidence to judge the whole condition.
Another cardinal point is, recently the world is become more revolutionized and successful by the help of technologically beneficial environments. Consequently, the observation which is made recently on the children is by using the help of those benign technologies. On the other hand, twenty years ago the technologies are not as improved, advanced and state-of -art now-a-days. So, the observation made before twenty years might possess some inaccurate and wrong evidence. But, only on the basis of possibilities, we cannot able to make any judgments.
In conclusion, it can be asserted that the time difference between the two evidences is extreme high and thus we cannot say on the basis of recent evidence that the above statement is erratic and cannot give a random judgment of this above argument. We should try to gather as more evidence as we can and then after proper analysis we should make any conclusion.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- not exactly
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 496 350
No. of Characters: 2451 1500
No. of Different Words: 202 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.719 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.942 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.842 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 174 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 131 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 100 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 67 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.619 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.549 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.619 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.326 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.539 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.194 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, however, if, may, second, so, then, thus, well, in conclusion, talking about, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 28.8173652695 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 55.5748502994 112% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 16.3942115768 152% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2495.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 496.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03024193548 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71922212354 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92340030587 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.409274193548 0.468620217663 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 805.5 705.55239521 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.2134901753 57.8364921388 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.80952381 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.619047619 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.61904761905 5.70786347227 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.22001855027 0.218282227539 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0661270066726 0.0743258471296 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0806910461907 0.0701772020484 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112354553185 0.128457276422 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0737224053248 0.0628817314937 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => 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: 12.19 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.74 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => 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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