The following appeared in an article written by Dr.Karp, an anthropologist
An interview centered approach can be more exact than an observational one since one gets to actively interact with the subject. The former method can bring to light the subject's
thoughts and experiences and not basing the findings on assumptions derived from observations. There's a lot of ambiguity lying in observing a person's actions to actually interacting with the person to prove his/her action. That being said, Dr.Karp completely dismissing Dr. Field's method as inaccurate in favor of his is devoid of some evidence.
Dr.Field specifically observed only the children of Tertia and concluded that the children were raised by the entire village and not only by their biological parents. On the contrary, Dr. Karp
interviewed more than just the children of Tertia. So we can't know what practices will be followed in the neighboring islands compared to the village Tertia. He could have interviewed
more children from other villages where they could actually be reared by their biological parents. And since no observation was conducted to study their lifestyle, Dr.Karp could be basing
his conclusion on assumptions drawn from the interview.
Secondly, Just because the children talk more about their biological parents doesn't necessarily mean that the other members of the village had no part in bringing them up. It is a natural
phenomenon for children to be biased towards and talk more about their own parents than anybody else. The lack of observation is once again leading to assumptions.
The missing evidence provided above tends to question the author's claims. In conclusion, I believe that a combination of both methods will yield accurate results for the study.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 274 350
No. of Characters: 1390 1500
No. of Different Words: 162 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.069 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.073 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.754 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 101 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 84 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.571 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.288 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.429 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.321 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.559 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.124 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 96, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: There's
... assumptions derived from observations. Theres a lot of ambiguity lying in observing a...
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Line 2, column 244, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Karp
...ove his/her action. That being said, Dr.Karp completely dismissing Dr. Fields method...
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Line 4, column 4, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Field
...f his is devoid of some evidence. Dr.Field specifically observed only the children...
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Line 5, column 58, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...than just the children of Tertia. So we cant know what practices will be followed in...
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Line 6, column 168, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Karp
... conducted to study their lifestyle, Dr.Karp could be basing his conclusion on assu...
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Line 9, column 78, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...alk more about their biological parents doesnt necessarily mean that the other members...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, if, second, secondly, so, in conclusion, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1430.0 2260.96107784 63% => OK
No of words: 269.0 441.139720559 61% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31598513011 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80146488914 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.598513011152 0.468620217663 128% => OK
syllable_count: 430.2 705.55239521 61% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.80071877 57.8364921388 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 102.142857143 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2142857143 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.71428571429 5.70786347227 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 9.0 5.15768463074 174% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => 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: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.113748264031 0.218282227539 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0384525442029 0.0743258471296 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0522501058947 0.0701772020484 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0421153815712 0.128457276422 33% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0445326015503 0.0628817314937 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 98.500998004 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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