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 argument that to gather necessary information that will be the determinant factor in solving child education habits of Tertia can be realized by interview-centered method may seem tenable at first glance. This way, anthropologists who support this idea make a valid argument, one that could be correct if its premises were true. However, their recommendation relies on assumptions for which there is no clear evidence.
Firstly, the offer to make a social experiment based on only one method is always in contrast with the very nature of science. To be able to make a reliable inference which will guide people on a specific matter, one should try all possible ways to build his or her opinions. Because all these methods come with their own benefits and drawbacks. In this specific example, it is very naive to believe what children say. Taking what they iterate at face value may sometimes be misleading. For example, the interviewee pool should be fair, valid and representative. If orphans are to be questioned, that would lead to a biased result. In addition, maybe in this particular society, children are told not to tell the truth when they interact with foreigners. May be it is a very closed culture and its members do not trust strangers, so they lie deliberately just to divert them to irrelevant results. Thus, scientist should not stick to only one method to investigate a foreign culture to reach dependable information.
Secondly, Dr. Karp’s conducted investigation presumes that children’s talking about their biological parents during the interview clearly indicates that children are reared by their parents. This assumption may hold true for open societies, however, the case is about a foreign village of which social norms are unknown to modern people. To be able to grasp the necessary information through interview method can be deceptive. For instance, even in modern world people encounter secret societies for which sharing information about the organization is banned. How can one be sure to learn everything by just talking to some members? In this sense, the power of observation is not only helpful, but also necessary. So, scientists should consider a couple of compatible methods to conduct scientific researches.
All in all, it is necessary to consider all possible ways to solve a different culture, if science is the core aim here. In this vein, recommendation in the writing seems to be relying on baseless assumptions that weaken the persuasiveness of the scientists who offer to use only interview method.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 415 350
No. of Characters: 2087 1500
No. of Different Words: 230 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.513 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.029 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.885 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 155 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 118 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 55 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.864 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.398 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.727 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.259 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.422 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.039 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 756, Rule ID: MAY_BE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'maybe' (=perhaps)?
Suggestion: Maybe
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, thus, for example, for instance, in addition, in contrast, talking about, to tell the truth
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2148.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 415.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17590361446 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51348521516 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98592430239 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 204.123752495 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561445783133 0.468620217663 120% => OK
syllable_count: 670.5 705.55239521 95% => 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: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.9539400621 57.8364921388 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.6363636364 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8636363636 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.18181818182 5.70786347227 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0604248853173 0.218282227539 28% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0169728886375 0.0743258471296 23% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0213845892718 0.0701772020484 30% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0378321358349 0.128457276422 29% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0172474687286 0.0628817314937 27% => 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: 12.4 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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