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.
The above recommendation is based on the idea that the children reared by other adults do not have feelings for their biological parents, other people can not tell the younsters about the people who have given birth to them.
A study conducted in USA in 2001, said that it was seen that the individuals who go to foster families spend most of their childhood thinking about how their life would have been if they would have been living with them. If these kids were interviewed then it is definitely sure that they would be taking about their real folks and not the foster ones, but this does not mean that they have lived with their real folks. As if the above statement is belived then it just gives us this idea.
Moreover, the interviews are conducted on the smaller level and to grasp the working or thinking of the entire culture it is important analyse it on the larger scale which can be easily done through the observations. Therefore, the children interviewed were emotionally influnced during the interview but the third person observing from outside is not going to have any emotional attachment. So, the conclusion is unbaised.
As, the observation tells us that young ones are taken care of by other adults and not by the parents then it is highly probable that the real parents who are young adults have been assigned certain specific duties by the society for which they are forced to stay away from their kids. And, may be this is the reason the youngsters idolise their actual parents and keep talking about them.
To conclude, we need to understand that the to research regarding any society or culture should be based from the larger prespective and should not be predisposed, therefore it is better use the observation approach.
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e-rater score report
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 10 15
No. of Words: 304 350
No. of Characters: 1422 1500
No. of Different Words: 157 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.176 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.678 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.428 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 85 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 61 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 44 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.4 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.793 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.9 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.359 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.359 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.15 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 188, Rule ID: IF_WOULD_HAVE_VBN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'had been'?
Suggestion: had been
... how their life would have been if they would have been living with them. If these kids were in...
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Line 2, column 420, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” 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.
... they have lived with their real folks. As if the above statement is belived then ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, moreover, regarding, so, then, therefore, third, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1450.0 2260.96107784 64% => OK
No of words: 304.0 441.139720559 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76973684211 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47752186916 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.526315789474 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 446.4 705.55239521 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
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: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => 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: 30.0 22.8473053892 131% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 75.8646162582 57.8364921388 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.0 119.503703932 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.4 23.324526521 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.6 5.70786347227 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 6.88822355289 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0848639083961 0.218282227539 39% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0336053281398 0.0743258471296 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0364333333993 0.0701772020484 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0544645532125 0.128457276422 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0356758746549 0.0628817314937 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 14.3799401198 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.98 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 98.500998004 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.1389221557 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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