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 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 the article written by Dr.Karp it is stated that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture is invalid and his observation-centered approach to studying culture is invalid. Dr. Karp has come to this conclusion after adopting an interview-centered approach to understand the child-raring culture of Tertia. However, before this conclusion can be evaluated, three unstated assumptions must be clarified.
Firstly, Dr. Karp has equated children talking about their biological parents to the children being nurtured by them. It can not be concluded that parents are the ones who play the major role in raising their children, just because the children talk more about their parents. Further, it can be argued that children will naturally talk about their own parents because, at the end of the day, they are their actual parents. If any of these statements are valid then the conclusion is significantly weakened.
Secondly, Dr. Karp and the graduate students, consider a child's testimony to study Tertia's culture. Children are a bit immature, their statements can not be considered absolute. Therefore, to believe that children's interviews can help study an entire island's child-raring culture may not be the right approach. We need more interviews and accounts from adults who have been raised on the island. They may provide a better insight into how they were raised on Tertia, and how they raise their own children, otherwise, the conclusion holds no water.
Dr. Karp's article never states what questions the children were asked. We know, the study was conducted by a group of graduate students, but we don't know if the questions asked were actually related to understanding the culture of the island or not. The questions could have been framed in such a way that the children would have had to talk more about their parents. Maybe the questions were too complex for the child to understand, or maybe they were too shallow for the child to actually talk about anything other than their parents. Until we are provided with more data about the questions asked in the interview we can't say the conclusion is valid.
In conclusion, Dr. Karp's approach to understanding the culture of Tertia is deeply flawed, as it has too many variables and unwarranted assumptions. If it will be possible for them to clarify these assumptions, provide more information, and add more dimensions to their approach, then only can we consider their observations valid.
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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: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 402 350
No. of Characters: 2022 1500
No. of Different Words: 190 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.478 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.03 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.796 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 141 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 120 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.158 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.627 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.526 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.342 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.57 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.159 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: Karp
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...written by Dr.Karp it is stated that Dr. Fields conclusion about Tertian village ...
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Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...the day, they are their actual parents. If any of these statements are valid then ...
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...bout anything other than their parents. Until we are provided with more data about th...
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Suggestion: can't; cannot
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 39.0 28.8173652695 135% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 16.3942115768 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2077.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 400.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1925 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.472135955 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8763855357 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 616.5 705.55239521 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.0056166748 57.8364921388 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.315789474 119.503703932 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0526315789 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.47368421053 5.70786347227 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.67664670659 278% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.187378278175 0.218282227539 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0697347446352 0.0743258471296 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0648432638171 0.0701772020484 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115286778314 0.128457276422 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0565620600977 0.0628817314937 90% => 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: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
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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