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.
To decide if the recommendation is pragmatic, the anthropologists would need to answer questions such as: how many children were interviewed versus how many children were observed? Was there a certain group that was focused on during the observations/interviews or did the anthropologists involve different villages? Did the time difference influence the results?
The number of children who were observed/interviewed is influential because if there were various children who were observed when Dr. Field concluded that the entire village reared the children, he would have made a reliable conclusion. If there were only a few children who were observed, the conclusion is unreliable. Similarly, for Dr. Karp’s conclusion, the number of interviewees determines the dependability.
The villages that were involved would be an important question because different villages may have different traditions, some may use the whole village to raise the children and others may be fully dependent on the parents to raise the children on their own. If Dr. Field observed one village and Dr. Karp interviewed a different village, the villages may have not come from similar traditions.
One last thing to consider is the time difference. There was a gap of twenty years between the observations and the interviews of the anthropologists. This lucid difference in time may be the reason for the opposite results. Along the years, the villages may have developed modern child-rearing habits, they once relied on the entire village but now they have the parents responsible for bringing up their children. Just like in the United States, “times have changed” and the way in which children are raised now is changed from how they were previously raised.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 276 350
No. of Characters: 1435 1500
No. of Different Words: 135 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.076 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.199 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.93 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 104 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 84 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.231 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.533 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.365 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.591 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.115 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, similarly, so, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 28.8173652695 35% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 55.5748502994 43% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1486.0 2260.96107784 66% => OK
No of words: 274.0 441.139720559 62% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.42335766423 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.34916410583 2.78398813304 120% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 204.123752495 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.529197080292 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 462.6 705.55239521 66% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.1579782542 57.8364921388 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.307692308 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0769230769 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.76923076923 5.70786347227 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 6.88822355289 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.25967834931 0.218282227539 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0899213628499 0.0743258471296 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0772352752827 0.0701772020484 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163555395127 0.128457276422 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0458444660979 0.0628817314937 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 98.500998004 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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