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 idea that correctness of a fact is tantamount to incorrectness of its complementary fact is absurd. The method followed by Dr. Karp cannot be used to conclude that interview-centered method is accurate, for the purpose of obtaining accurate information on Tertial child-rearing practice. It is flawed in multiple, and doesn’t clarify two of the fundamental questions asked below.
Firstly, Validity of Dr. Karp’s observation-centered method is questionable, but is it fair to declare that only interview-centered method is valid for such an experiment? Is it fair to invalidate observation-centered method. Consider an experiment on behavioural studies of honey bees for instance, if Dr. Field’s method of observation was used, it would conclude that honeybees are hardworking peaceful insects. On the contrary, in Dr. Karp’s interview based method, honeybees would come to prick the person disturbing the honeycomb, which would lead Dr. Karp to conclude that honeybees are violent intersects. It is known fact that Dr. Karp has performed an experiment with interview-centered method to land at a conclusion which contradict’s with the conclusion of Dr. Karp, but this information is not sufficient, neither for proving that Dr. Field’s findings were incorrect, nor that Dr. Karp’s observation are correct.
Secondly, is it possible to conduct this behavioural study using some other method? It is evident from the history of classical science, that conclusions are derived from outcomes, and outcomes changes with the experimental approach. When there are more approaches and methods, the are more outcomes and the possibility of deriving an accurate conclusion increases. In this case, there are only two methods mentioned, both giving contradicting outcomes. Had there been few other methods, which gave a similar outcome, say “x-centered” method, then one could easily argue that the outcomes of x-centered method and interview - centered method are in sync, so interview-centered approach could be taken to gather information for future experiments, but this is not the case.
Overall, it is evident that more experiments and results are required to reach any acceptable conclusion. The lack of sufficient information from both Dr. Karp’s and Dr. Field’s experiment leaves us with sufficient mysteries on the behavioural studies of Tertian child-rearing practices. Hence it is not correct to accept interview-centered method as the recommended method for gathering the requisite information for the study.
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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: 16 15
No. of Words: 381 350
No. of Characters: 2087 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.418 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.478 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.428 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 155 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 127 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 96 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 69 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.812 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.501 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.438 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.352 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.547 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.115 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 280, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
... there are more approaches and methods, the are more outcomes and the possibility of de...
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Line 7, column 300, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ies of Tertian child-rearing practices. Hence it is not correct to accept interview-c...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, if, second, secondly, so, then, for instance, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2198.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 380.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.78421052632 5.12650576532 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41515443553 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.71976111926 2.78398813304 134% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 204.123752495 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.507894736842 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 667.8 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.67365269461 358% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 77.2034396497 57.8364921388 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.375 119.503703932 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.75 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5625 5.70786347227 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => 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: 0.172369680957 0.218282227539 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0676435261406 0.0743258471296 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0533168965994 0.0701772020484 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106758285216 0.128457276422 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0415103088505 0.0628817314937 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.7 14.3799401198 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.21 48.3550499002 65% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.54 12.5979740519 131% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.26 8.32208582834 111% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 98.500998004 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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