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-centered approach to studying cultures is invalid as well. 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 discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The article written by Dr. Karp concludes that the child rearing conditions in Tertia is more focused on biological parents than the entire village contrasting the study done by Dr. Field and deeming his study to be invalid. The evidence that Dr. Karp gives is that his team of Graduate Students performed an interview-centred approach where the kids spoke more about their parents and not the people of the village. However, there needs to be given some specific evidence to fully evaluate this argument.
Firstly, Dr. Karp mentions that his team did an interview with the kids. However, he doesn’t mention the type of questions that were asked to kids. Maybe the kids were questioned more about their biological parents forcing them to converse about their parents, circumventing the aspects that lead to their all-round development. If Dr. Karp could provide some of the questions that were asked to the kids that lead him to that conclusion, then maybe a strong evaluation can be done for the argument. However, if the above does hold true, then the argument is considerably flawed.
Secondly, Dr. Karp mentions that the observation-centred approach is invalid. But does the interview centric approach let the researchers really study the children’s day to day activities? It could be that the observation method allowed Dr. Field to study the different aspects that led to the all- round development of the kids from the entire village and not just by the biological parents. By stating the Dr. Field’s research was invalid, Dr. Karp doesn’t provide the important evidence where the observation centric approach failed and caused invalid results. If the above does hold true, then Dr. Karp’s argument does not hold water.
Lastly, Dr. Field’s research was done twenty years ago. It could happen that in 20 years some grotesque incident must’ve happened with one of the kids and the people of the village. That incident could’ve completely destroyed the trust among the members of the village thereby not letting kids being brought up in communal environment anymore. This just means that Dr. Field’s research isn’t false but in fact due to the circumstances, the environment of child rearing changed. If the above is in fact true, then Dr. Karp’s conclusion needs to be revaluated again.
As of the moment, Dr. Karp’s argument is in need of crucial evidences that can help revaluate it. Perhaps in the form of two-way systematic study that involves interviews and observations could lead to a more conclusive study regarding the child rearing conditions in Tertia Island.
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Comments
e-rater score 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: 20 15
No. of Words: 428 350
No. of Characters: 2114 1500
No. of Different Words: 188 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.548 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.939 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.657 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 140 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 120 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 72 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.4 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.576 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.345 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.501 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.114 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 143, Rule ID: TO_NON_BASE[1]
Message: The verb after "to" should be in the base form: 'kid'.
Suggestion: kid
...he type of questions that were asked to kids. Maybe the kids were questioned more ab...
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Line 3, column 356, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
... development. If Dr. Karp could provide some of the questions that were asked to the kids t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, really, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2188.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 423.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17257683215 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53508145475 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77645056568 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.446808510638 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 628.2 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.335440974 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.4 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.15 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.05 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.271556696271 0.218282227539 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0857329867535 0.0743258471296 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0703786575748 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15531163852 0.128457276422 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0499582181291 0.0628817314937 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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