Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia. Using an observation-centered approach to studying Tertian culture, he concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. Recently another anthropologist, Dr. Karp, visited the group of islands that includes Tertia and used the interview-centered method to study child-rearing practices. In the interviews that Dr. Karp conducted with children living in this group of islands, the children spent much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. Dr. Karp decided that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture must be invalid. Some anthropologists recommend that to obtain accurate information on Tertian child-rearing practices, future research on the subject should be conducted via the interview-centered method.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
Based on the statements made above, there definitely needs to be more research and understanding about the Tertian child rearing practices. The anthropologist’s have recommended the “interview-centered” method to accrue this information on the Tertian child rearing method. While, it might be one of the methods to obtain information, the evidences that suggest the usage of this method are inadequate to suggest the same. The reasoning provided has many questions that need to be answered before we understand if it is the apt method.
The recommendation has been made citing the interview conducted by Dr.Karp. While it has been mentioned that the children interviewed have spoken more about their biological parents rather than speaking about the other adults in the village, there has been no mention about the questions that were asked to these children. If the children were asked only about their parents, they would regardless of who they were raised by speak only about their parents. Most of us in interviews try to provide an answer to the question asked. Hence, without understanding the purview and the context of the questions asked, the responses of the children interviews is not a reliable source of citation.
Secondly, it has been mentioned that Dr.Karp has conducted the interview in a group of islands that includes the Tertian islands. There has been no mention about the contribution of those interview answers by children who were actually from the Tertian islands. If most of the answers were from the adjoining islands, then these answers cannot be taken as a proxy for the answers of Tertian children. This is a assumption that has been made by the anthropologists who have recommended the interview based approach.
Also, the choice of the sample size and the sample type (segment) of the children questioned have not been mentioned anywhere. It could be possible that Dr.Karp only had a very minor number of Tertian children who were raised only by their parents questioned. It could entirely be possible that the children chosen for the interview had similar family characteristics like non-amicable parents due to which the villagers did not have involvement with the family, or the children could be a part of a ostracized family due to a social taboo. To evaluate the responses of the interview, there should be a description of the subjects of the survey.
Also, the anthropologists do not provide any detail on the other approach that has been mentioned, the “Observation- based” model or for that matter any other alternative. Could the best approach be an amalgam of both the approaches which could incorporate the falls of either of them?
To conclude, neither of the approaches mentioned by the author separately in the paragraph provide enough evidence to support the recommendation. The recommendation provided by the anthropologists have a barrage of questions to be answered before coming to a conclusion.
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Essay evaluation 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: 21 15
No. of Words: 480 350
No. of Characters: 2422 1500
No. of Different Words: 199 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.681 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.046 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.958 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 171 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 137 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 98 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 64 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.857 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.748 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.476 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.323 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.585 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.139 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, hence, if, second, secondly, so, then, while, speaking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 55.5748502994 121% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2507.0 2260.96107784 111% => OK
No of words: 478.0 441.139720559 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24476987448 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67581127817 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.27105213068 2.78398813304 117% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.430962343096 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 775.8 705.55239521 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.036291291 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.380952381 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7619047619 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.85714285714 5.70786347227 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
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: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.150743027955 0.218282227539 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0475498467139 0.0743258471296 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0285747845571 0.0701772020484 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0789237168815 0.128457276422 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.030167137097 0.0628817314937 48% => 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: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 98.500998004 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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