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.
As per the article written by dr. Karp, it is mentioned that dr. field’s conclusion about Tertian village culture is invalid and the observation centered approach is invalid and that the interview centered method adopted by dr. karp’s team will establish more accurate understanding of child-rearing traditions in tertia and other island cultures. this conclusion is drawn based on the finding noted during the interviews conducted with the children living in the group of islands including tertia. It was noted that children spent more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. In order to evaluate the argument presented in this article it is important to answer below questions
Firstly, it is important to know how much time children of tertia spent talking about their parents and how much time did they spent talking about other adults of the village. It may well be the case that children of other islands spoke more about their parents compared to the time children of tertia spent talking about theirs and that the number of children of other islands is more compared to the number of children from tertia the overall time spent talking about parents was more. But, when only children of tertia are considered then we see the case is otherwise. In case this scenario holds good then it will weaken the point raised by dr. Karp in the article.
Secondly, it is not specified what was the age of the children when dr field made his observation and when dr. Karp conducted his interviews. what if the children were infants at the time dr field made his observations? And at that age the children were reared by the people of the village and that at the time of interview the children were teenagers and were with their parents. if this is true, then it explains why children are talking about parents more in the interview. Because these children will not have memory of the time when they were infant and would not know that they were reared by other adults. if this scenario comes good then the assertion made by dr Karp in his article that interview approach will establish better understanding will be weakened significantly.
Finally, the argument as it stands currently is severely flawed and dependent on unwarranted assumptions. answers to above questions are required in order to fully evaluate the argument and its accuracy. if dr karp can provide more details pertaining to how the interviews were conducted and when did dr field made the observation it will become easier to evaluate.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 430 350
No. of Characters: 2085 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.554 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.849 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.504 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 146 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 116 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 77 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 39.091 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 19.524 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.818 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.448 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.647 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.184 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, then, well, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 28.8173652695 135% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2134.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 430.0 441.139720559 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96279069767 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55372829156 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59345183652 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.386046511628 0.468620217663 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 650.7 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
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: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.7647718209 57.8364921388 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.619047619 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4761904762 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.90476190476 5.70786347227 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
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: 0.251619357085 0.218282227539 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0965377648794 0.0743258471296 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0589602468806 0.0701772020484 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167752737064 0.128457276422 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0580409967165 0.0628817314937 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.3799401198 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.53 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 98.500998004 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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