The following appeared in an article written by Dr. Karp, an anthropologist.
"Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia and concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. However, my recent interviews with children living in The group of islands that includes Tertia show that these children spend much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. This research of mine proves that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture is invalid and thus that the observation- The interview-centered method that my team of graduate students is currently using in Tertia will establish a much more accurate understanding of child-rearing traditions there and in other island cultures."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
In this article, the anthropologist have advocated that the Tertian village culture as invalid based on the interviews with children living there and the have concluded that the interview centered method provides a valid result rather than the observation centered approach. However, this conclusion can be purported if the following three questions are addressed.
Firstly, was the interview centered method conducted in a scientific method? In other words, were the children interviewed on a standard questionnaire? perhaps the questionnaire was discursive and couldn't depict the desired results. The survey may not have included the valid questions which could lead to the desired approach, especially for the children. if any of these experiences comes true, the conclusion above doesn't hold water.
Secondly, was sufficient number of children interviewed from all the areas of tertia? was the interview, conducted only in the groups of islands that included tertia, able to portray the entire image of tertia? perhaps the interview conducted mainly on children of the islands that Did not subsume the tertia. Besides, the likelihood might be quite generalized as it was not exactly of tertia. if any of these is true, the conclusion above is flawed.
Finally, is it valid to preclude the the viewing centered approach? The observation centered approach might potentially be a better method to conclude accurate understanding of child rearing in tertia. Further, the anthropologist might be less careful during the interview centered method than the observation method And if ending of up with a faulty ennue. if any of these doubts are proved, the conclusion cannot be counseled.
The argument, as it represents now, is highly flawed due to its blind reliance on a number of faulty assumptions. if the author is able to answer the aforesaid questions and provide more evidence in the form of a research work and dispel the drastically flawed doubts The validity of this tie might verified and it might be concluded hat the interview centered method is far more valid than the observation one and occlude the results obtained from that.
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Essay evaluation report
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: 11 15
No. of Words: 343 350
No. of Characters: 1762 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.304 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.137 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.823 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 144 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 78 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 31.182 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 19.488 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.818 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.391 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.673 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.075 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1820.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 341.0 441.139720559 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33724340176 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8882995548 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.492668621701 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 559.8 705.55239521 79% => 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: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 72.3677380203 57.8364921388 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.111111111 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9444444444 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.66666666667 5.70786347227 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 5.25449101796 228% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
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: 0.131792943233 0.218282227539 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0457688801289 0.0743258471296 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0475338324271 0.0701772020484 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0778704746704 0.128457276422 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0464827852357 0.0628817314937 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.3550499002 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.