The author makes a number of unwarranted assumptions that Dr. Field’s conclusion about Tertian village culture is invalid. If these assumptions do not hold true, the argument will not be true.
Firstly, the argument assumes that each study was done under the same parameters. The argument does not provide any information on the exact location or time. One study could have been done at home where children would talk to their biological parents about their day and interactions with other adults while another study could have been done outside with friends where the child would talk about their biological parents. The study also does not provide any statistics on number of children in the study. Because of this, the researcher cannot come to an accurate conclusion without a significant sample size.
Futhermore, the argument fails to provide any justification that interview-centered methods were the most accurate. The argument does not provide any guideline on how this method is carried out. Had another researcher conducted a interview-centered approach and come to the conclusion that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village than by their biological parents, the argument would be invalid.
Lastly, the author claims without warrant that what held true 20 years ago would hold true today. So even if we assume that children 20 years ago behave the similar to those of today, the argument is still lacking because it does not provide information to show there had been no cultural changes.
Because the argument makes several unwarranted assumptions, it fails to make a convincing case that Dr. Field’s conclusion about Tertian village culture is invalid.
Essay evaluation report
flaws:
the arguments are not exactly right on the point. Here goes a sample:
https://www.testbig.com/story/gre-argument-essay-topic-10-outline
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 269 350
No. of Characters: 1385 1500
No. of Different Words: 136 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.05 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.149 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.75 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 97 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 82 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 44 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 27 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.692 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.611 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.462 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.391 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.636 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.098 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 229, 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
...d out. Had another researcher conducted a interview-centered approach and come to...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, lastly, so, still, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 55.5748502994 54% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1436.0 2260.96107784 64% => OK
No of words: 269.0 441.139720559 61% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33828996283 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0498419064 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85085275382 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 204.123752495 69% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.524163568773 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 444.6 705.55239521 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.0122275509 57.8364921388 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.461538462 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6923076923 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.84615384615 5.70786347227 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.157143081462 0.218282227539 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.05676825172 0.0743258471296 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.063490233744 0.0701772020484 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0883237524003 0.128457276422 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0424385863455 0.0628817314937 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.3550499002 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.68 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 98.500998004 53% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => 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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