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
In the given argument author analyse the interview-centered approach and observation-centered approach used by two different anthropologists. The author's recommendations could be correct if their premises were to be true. However, in his argument the author has made assumptions for which there is no supporting evidence and used terms which lack definition.
First of all, both the anthropologist studied at different time and the time gap is also too much. Dr. Field concluded the children of Tertia village reared by an entire village rather than biological parents. After 20 years Dr. Karp studied and concluded same island children’s spent much more time talking about their biological parents than others. There is 20 years of gap between both studies which indicate the change in cultural and family values. As we see today’s children are far different from 20 year earlier children. So it is not necessary the differences found in the study based on the different approach only.
However, the interview method is more appropriate because the interview approach target the subject’s perception threw questions wheras the observation method only concludes the researcher’s point of view. In Dr. Field observation there is a strong possibility that the children’s had seen more with others rather than with parents because of cultural unity as we can see in India. In India few years back the children go anyone house in neighbors and spent a lot of time but today parents are not allow their child to go others house. Similarly it has been shown in the argument.
Additionally, there are each difference between approaches used for study. As well as there are limitations of every method in research so the observation method is not applicable that we cannot say. It may be possible that Dr. Field’s results were correct at that time and due to changes in dimensions the results of Dr. Karp become valid.
Conclusively, the recommendation is not based on the strong facts and the author need to analyse the argument to conclude with strong reasons.
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Essay evaluation report
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 335 350
No. of Characters: 1695 1500
No. of Different Words: 175 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.278 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.06 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.946 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 117 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 90 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.706 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.497 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.588 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.31 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.554 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.096 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 445, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'anyone' must be used with a third-person verb: 'houses'.
Suggestion: houses
...a few years back the children go anyone house in neighbors and spent a lot of time bu...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 514, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'allowed'.
Suggestion: allowed
...a lot of time but today parents are not allow their child to go others house. Similar...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 552, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Similarly,
...t allow their child to go others house. Similarly it has been shown in the argument. A...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, similarly, so, well, talking about, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1764.0 2260.96107784 78% => OK
No of words: 335.0 441.139720559 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26567164179 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27820116611 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17826209847 2.78398813304 114% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.531343283582 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 534.6 705.55239521 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.2197251804 57.8364921388 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.764705882 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7058823529 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.64705882353 5.70786347227 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => 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: 0.294514518368 0.218282227539 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0875799754494 0.0743258471296 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0964308500536 0.0701772020484 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130585592833 0.128457276422 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0821071099037 0.0628817314937 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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