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 childrearing 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 growing and character development of a child involves multiple factors. It includes situations and people that lead to the overall nurturing and maturing of his/her emotional, social and intelligence quotients.
Dr. Karp mentions that the study undertaken by him and his graduate students is focused on an interview-centred method. However, his study was focused not alone on Tertia but was targeted at the entire group of islands that include Tertia. Hence, only a few children from Tertia would have been approached for this. Unless Dr. Karp can establish that a proper sampling technique was used for choosing the children to be interviewed, his/her study cannot be accepted.
Children talking more about their biological parents more could be because they live with their parents and not necessarily because they are reared only by their parents. The interview questions could have been framed such that the answers needed the children to talk about their biological parents more. It might not have included questions about all facets of child development. It is also a possibility that children may not answer or understand the interview questions entirely.
While Dr Field observed the community as a whole, Dr. Karp’s investigations were narrowed to children and did not include even their biological parents, who are concluded to be most involved in child-rearing. Coming to conclusions from such a limited interview is incorrect. Also, since cultures are very varying, it is not scientific to use the same interview questions across all islands in the group.
Since Dr. Karp’s study was narrow and does not seem to cover all aspects necessary for an anthropological study, one cannot consider Dr. Field’s study invalid from it. It is also incorrect to conclude that all observation-centred studies are wrong just from this one case.
Hence, Dr. Karp’s study has to be evaluated for sampling techniques, questions asked, methods used to conduct the interviews, the audience of interview etc. before being accepted as authentic. Unless these tests are done, Dr Field’s study cannot be proved wrong. Even if Dr. Field’s study is proved wrong, that conclusions cannot be used to vote against all observation-centred studies.
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- The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation andexplain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and sup 58
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 356 350
No. of Characters: 1840 1500
No. of Different Words: 182 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.344 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.169 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.896 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 134 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 106 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 75 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.778 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.579 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.444 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.325 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.498 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.126 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, may, so, then, while, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 55.5748502994 67% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1923.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 354.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.43220338983 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06498216562 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.539548022599 0.468620217663 115% => OK
syllable_count: 577.8 705.55239521 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.8752954548 57.8364921388 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.210526316 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6315789474 23.324526521 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.05263157895 5.70786347227 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => 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: 0.210348311531 0.218282227539 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0644818559643 0.0743258471296 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0590416309594 0.0701772020484 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108984336597 0.128457276422 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0720318328902 0.0628817314937 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => 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: 14.21 12.5979740519 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => 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: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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