Dr. Karp and Dr. Field try to understand the upbringing of the youth in the small village of Tertia with the former claiming that children are raised solely by their biological parents whereas the latter theorizes that the entire village plays a role in education. Karp goes on to attack Field's conclusions ultimately declaring them invalid due to contradictory information uncovered during his own research. However, the attacks made by Karp are based on incomplete information, assumptions, and logical errors which weaken his stance significantly.
First, in his article, Karp claims that the kids interviewed discussed their birth parents greatly. He then uses this increased dialogue about the mother and father to imply that the parents raised the children. Talking about biological parents does not signify that the children have been raised solely by them. There could be many reasons why the interview subjects focused on that topic such as loaded questions from the interviewers or a significant recent occurrence involving the mothers and fathers. Because life in reality and life in the questionnaire can be portrayed and interpreted differently further analysis of the people analyzed and questions posed would have to be considered.
Furthermore, Karp does not indicate the scope of his observational study. It is unknown if the sample he is using to make statements and claims about the entire culture is representative. He could have just looked at a few cases which would qualify his results as without an appropriate sample that reflects the state of the children in Tertia as a whole. If the number of children interviewed was very small then it could be possible that the individuals questioned could be outliers in the analysis. Karp should provide the number of cases in his study and what proportion of the population they make up. This would give his findings more statistical significance and strengthen his results.
Finally, the Implication of interview research being superior to observational study is flawed due to the first conclusion that Field's research is invalid due to the presence of an observational contradiction. The entire logic employed here is quite paradoxical as Karp uses a few data points to attack a form of study centered around collecting data. Ironically, in trying to demonstrate a contridiction in Field's work Karp ends up presenting a contradiction in his own analysis. Frankly, this piece of logic needs to be amended to specify the type of observational study that Field used to differentiate the differences between his study and isolate the two points.
Thus, although Karp conducted his own study which challenged Field previous statement about upbringing in the Tertia village, we cannot follow reject Field's previous analysis. The new experiments conducted might have illuminated new information; however, the logically processes used, omission of critical information, and contradictions present in the analysis require that Karp conduct further refinement of his argument.
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 02
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 476 350
No. of Characters: 2525 1500
No. of Different Words: 243 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.671 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.305 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.966 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 191 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 151 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 105 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 73 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.8 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.072 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.65 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.319 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.534 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.137 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 357, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...e of the children in Tertia as a whole. If the number of children interviewed was ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, frankly, furthermore, however, if, look, so, then, thus, whereas, such as, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2572.0 2260.96107784 114% => OK
No of words: 476.0 441.139720559 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40336134454 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67091256922 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03582405082 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 204.123752495 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52731092437 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 794.7 705.55239521 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.0679938905 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.6 119.503703932 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.2 5.70786347227 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.221707411142 0.218282227539 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0663599756394 0.0743258471296 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0484709932359 0.0701772020484 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124134664102 0.128457276422 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0550537538517 0.0628817314937 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.3799401198 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.34 12.5979740519 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.45 8.32208582834 114% => OK
difficult_words: 141.0 98.500998004 143% => 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: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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