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.
The author has discussed about the two distinct studies that are performed on Tertian culture by two different doctors Dr. Field and Dr. Karp. Dr. Field had performed his study twenty years ago and recorded data by observing the actions of the children and the Tertian people and concluded that the raising of the child is majorly done by the Tertian people altogether. On another hand Dr. Karp did his study only recently through a diffrerent format that involved the interview with the children of the Tertain society and found that children were talking more about their biological parents. The study performed by the doctors were on different time and by different methods which leads to a ambigous conclusion in deciding which one is right. Therefore, I am not in favor with the auhor's conclusion that future research should be performed via the interview-centered method.
Firstly, I would like to draw the attention on the fact that there is a major gap of two decades in the research done by both the Doctors. A lot can change in twenty years even the rearing method of a child. There can be a possibility that suggests that when Dr. Field might had done his research when the entire village used to show interest in the rearing of a child. Something tragic mishap would have been occurred due to which this metod was shifted towards the rearing of the child by his/her biological parents only. And coincidently, Dr. Karp would have been arrived during this time and hence interviewing the children gave him different results. This led to the conclusion that both of the studies could or could not be correct.
Secondly, the research method performed by the Dr. Karp can be molded by the interviewee. Maybe Tertian people are not likely to reveal the teaching methods of their children as they are the face of the next generation or they would not like other people to know the other personal rituals performed by the Tertian people. Therefore, they would have asked children to talk about their parents more than talking about the village so that no other information could be exposed by the children. Moreover, it also a possibility that if the doctor would have taken observation alongside the interviews then the different results could have obtained.
Additionally, the author has given no context about the reality of the Tertian people. Every thing which is researched by the doctors is conveyed in the argument. There is not any guarantee regarding the accuracy in the studies presented by both the doctors. It is also possible that both of them have recorded ambiguous data or might one of them have. It is hard to say which one of them is right.
Therefore, I conclude the argument by stating that just because Dr. Karp had performed his study recently it does not mean that the previous studies are of no use now and only the interview methodology should be taken into considerations by other anthropologists. The studies performed by Dr. Field could be right too and hence research could be performed through his method too.
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e-rater score report
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: 22 15
No. of Words: 521 350
No. of Characters: 2491 1500
No. of Different Words: 211 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.778 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.781 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.56 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 165 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 138 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 86 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.682 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.236 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.455 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.317 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.519 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.134 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 693, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...and by different methods which leads to a ambigous conclusion in deciding which o...
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Line 3, column 543, Rule ID: IF_WOULD_HAVE_VBN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'had taken'?
Suggestion: had taken
...t also a possibility that if the doctor would have taken observation alongside the interviews th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, if, may, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 13.6137724551 154% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 28.8173652695 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => 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: 2529.0 2260.96107784 112% => OK
No of words: 520.0 441.139720559 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86346153846 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77530192783 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62934551557 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 204.123752495 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.415384615385 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 767.7 705.55239521 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.0931709164 57.8364921388 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.954545455 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6363636364 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.04545454545 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
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: 0.194693592091 0.218282227539 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0583402297847 0.0743258471296 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0587436562321 0.0701772020484 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109633257047 0.128457276422 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0633564070336 0.0628817314937 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.69 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.5 12.3882235529 141% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => 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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