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 an article written by Dr. Karp, an anthropologist, it was stated that an observation conducted by Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist on children being reared by an entire village instead of their biological parent is invalid due to a recent interview conducted by Dr. Karp that showed that the children spent more time talking about their biological parents than other adults in the village. However, before this conclusion can be accepted, the following assumptions needs to examined.
Firstly, Dr. Karp assumed that the fact that this culture doesn’t exist now meant it didn’t exist 20 years ago. Dr. Field observations took place twenty ago before Dr. Karp recent interview. Perhaps, the culture of the Tertia people changes with each leadership and 20 years ago, the reigning chief implanted that culture then and it changed years later after his death, which led to it not being anymore. Also, it is possible that the social interaction of the Tertia people was lacking 20 years ago, and thus led to the culture of entire village rearing the children in order to foster social relationship and it was stopped years later when the result have been achieved. If the above scenario is true, then the assumption does not hold water.
Secondly, children talking about their biological doesn’t invalidate the earlier observation that they were raised by the entire village. Dr. Karp assumed that the fact that the children spoke a lot about their biological parent refutes Dr. Field Observation. Maybe, the children were only raised by the entire village up to certain age in order to instill the culture and value of their societies in them after which they parents continues with the upbringing, thus, responsible for the frequent mention of their biological parents since they spent other intricate part of their life’s with them. More so, it is possible that part of the rearing done by the villagers include special explanation about family and how relevant parents are in the life of the children, thereby instilling the relevance of parents in the children upbringing, thus, responsible for the frequent mention of their biological parents. If the is above true, then it invalidates the conclusion made by Dr. Karp.
Lastly, the author assumed that the interview-based approach used by his graduate student is more accurate than Dr. Field observation method. Perhaps, the interview method will only cover view of the Tertia people who won’t be a true representation of the entire population, therefore, resulting in an inaccurate result. Also, the accuracy of the research which is dependent on the graduate student cannot be compared to a research carried out by a renowed anthropologist. The graduate students have limited exposure and experience and it is possible that the result from the data is erroneous. If this is the case, then the assumption is unwarranted.
Conclusively, the author’s conclusion is flawed based on several unwarranted assumption. If the author can provide more evidence that compares the two research method using a standard research analysis approach, then, the conclusion can be evaluated for credibility and overall acceptance.
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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: 7 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 515 350
No. of Characters: 2603 1500
No. of Different Words: 217 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.764 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.054 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.726 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 192 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 152 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 99 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 60 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.105 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.01 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.789 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.32 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.542 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.111 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 423, Rule ID: NON3PRS_VERB[2]
Message: The pronoun 'they' must be used with a non-third-person form of a verb: 'parent'
Suggestion: parent
...heir societies in them after which they parents continues with the upbringing, thus, re...
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Line 6, column 217, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...andard research analysis approach, then, the conclusion can be evaluated for cred...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, therefore, thus, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 28.8173652695 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2675.0 2260.96107784 118% => OK
No of words: 511.0 441.139720559 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23483365949 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75450408675 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81536215595 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 204.123752495 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.457925636008 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 815.4 705.55239521 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 95.6592521441 57.8364921388 165% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.789473684 119.503703932 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.8947368421 23.324526521 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.94736842105 5.70786347227 104% => 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: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.329317109787 0.218282227539 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0885538462868 0.0743258471296 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0968066353211 0.0701772020484 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171204228056 0.128457276422 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.12790650926 0.0628817314937 203% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 98.500998004 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 12.3882235529 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => 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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