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 anthropologists recommend that future research on the study of Tertia should be conducted via the interview-centered method in order to obtain accurate information on Tertian child-rearing practices. To support the claim the author points out two anthropologists who studied the child-rearing practices in Tertian Culture. Author’s chain of reasoning followed by the anthropologist’s recommendation seems convincing at first sight however, it is based on certain unwarranted assumptions about both study methods which are not so obvious and lacks in correlating between initial studies to the recent one. However, in order to better evaluate the argument and analyze its logical soundness, additional explanation is required to answer questions that are foundational to the line of reasoning.
Firstly, the anthropologists imply that the initial study by Dr. Field is invalid, based on recent study by Dr.Karp without considering the possible explanations that made the difference between the two studies. Has the island culture changed since twenty years? How exactly the study was performed using observation method? It is possible that the Tertian islands culture has changed since twenty years and even if Dr. Field had used the interview cantered approach twenty years ago the result could have been the same. They also need to examine the methodology of observation performed by Dr. Field and more details about his study’s result should be mentioned. Without considering these details the recommendation remains unsupported.
Secondly, a recent study performed by Dr. Karp using the interview centered approach on a group of islands is incomplete without knowing the interview’s scope of study. What were the questions asked in the interview and who were these questions asked to? It is possible that these questions were asked to children of other islands other than Tertia since Dr.Karp studied a group of islands. Even if the interview is based on children in Tertia, the questions in the interview might have made a difference. If the children spent much more time talking about their biological parents that doesn’t prove that they were raised by them. Also, are those children representative of all the children in Tertia? What about the other children who were not interviewed? Without knowing the scope of the study, the interview approach cannot be considered accurate to study the Tertian child rearing culture. To consider the recommendation it is important to scrutinize the study and its scope by Dr.Karp along with the possible reasons that led to a different outcome than the previous study.
Finally, as indicated Dr. Karp decided that Dr.Field’s conclusion about Tertian Village culture must be invalid, but the anthropologists fail to evidence the reason showing how the interview centered approach delivers more accurate results as compared to the observation centered one. One might argue that the interview centered approach could make the interviewers conscious providing variable information at a broader range or probably, observation centered approach would provide accurate results. We do not know any further details required to compare these approaches. Therefore, to consider this recommendation for the future study of Tertian child rearing practices both the study approaches should be elaborated and analyzed with the help of empirical evidences.
Further, the analysis reveal obvious gaps that render the argument specious and in order to improve upon the logical shortcomings plus bolster the argument, further explanation on questions like “has the culture of Tertia changed since twenty years? What was the scope of the second study by Dr.Field and why the interview centered approach is more accurate than observation based to study Tertian child rearing practices?” would be beneficial. With lack of comprehensive chain of reasoning, the recommendation as it stands unpersuasive.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 26 15
No. of Words: 607 350
No. of Characters: 3273 1500
No. of Different Words: 256 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.964 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.392 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.967 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 248 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 214 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 138 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 88 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.346 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.333 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.462 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.306 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.49 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.089 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 84.0 55.5748502994 151% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3382.0 2260.96107784 150% => OK
No of words: 601.0 441.139720559 136% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.62728785358 5.12650576532 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.95129289623 4.56307096286 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1539943089 2.78398813304 113% => OK
Unique words: 263.0 204.123752495 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.437603993344 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1036.8 705.55239521 147% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.6608542539 57.8364921388 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.076923077 119.503703932 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1153846154 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.65384615385 5.70786347227 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.67664670659 299% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.316875055674 0.218282227539 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0961106362194 0.0743258471296 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0616654600919 0.0701772020484 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.192095610648 0.128457276422 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.04133178104 0.0628817314937 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.67 12.5979740519 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 141.0 98.500998004 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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