The argument that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture and his observation-centered approach are invalid, is logically unconvincing as it made some baseless assumptions.
First, the argument assumes that the culture of the Tertian people 20 years ago is still the same as today thus concluding that a difference in the result of the research made on their culture at different times should be the same if true. The Tertian people might have had a change in their culture after the observations reported by Dr. Field. To support the claim by Dr. Karp, a research made about the culture of the Tertian people investigating what the culture has been like over the past 25 years or more showing no change in the culture would have helped to accept this claim made by Dr. Karp.
Second, the argument never mentioned what the children are discussing about their biological parents. The children might have been discussing about the lack of parental guidance from their parents. However, in the claim provided the children's topic of discussion is not provided making it difficult to accept this claim.
Finally, the argument did not provide the sample size of those interviewed. The ratio of the number of children interviewed compared to the whole population of children might be small. Also, the children interviewed might have comprised mostly of those who are being raised by their parents and thus the reason why they speak more of their parents than other adults in the village.
Thus, the argument is not completely sound. The evidence in support of the conclusion that Dr. Field's conclusion and method is invalid does little to prove the conclusion since it does not provide enough information to support the assumptions as earlier raised. Ultimately, the argument is baseless if the author cannot report the research showing a constancy in the Tertian culture over the past 20 years, what is been discussed by the children of their biological parents and the number of children interviewed as compared with the whole population of Children in the Tertian island
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- 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 r 56
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 343 350
No. of Characters: 1713 1500
No. of Different Words: 148 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.304 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.994 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.69 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 125 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 98 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 62 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.385 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.323 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.538 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.392 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.657 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.108 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 228, Rule ID: COMPRISED_CHIEFLY_OF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'composed mostly of' or 'comprised mostly' or 'consisted mostly of'?
Suggestion: composed mostly of; comprised mostly; consisted mostly of
...so, the children interviewed might have comprised mostly of those who are being raised by their par...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, second, so, still, thus, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1750.0 2260.96107784 77% => OK
No of words: 343.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10204081633 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72134283137 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 204.123752495 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.448979591837 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 526.5 705.55239521 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 79.61400965 57.8364921388 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.615384615 119.503703932 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3846153846 23.324526521 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.117308640565 0.218282227539 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0459558108109 0.0743258471296 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0353063823378 0.0701772020484 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0728090389347 0.128457276422 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0337604173619 0.0628817314937 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.3799401198 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.73 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 98.500998004 62% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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