Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia. Using an observation-centered approach to studying Tertian culture, he concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. Recently another anthropologist, Dr. Karp, visited the group of islands that includes Tertia and used the interview-centered method to study child-rearing practices. In the interviews that Dr. Karp conducted with children living in this group of islands, the children spent much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. Dr. Karp decided that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture must be invalid. Some anthropologists recommend that to obtain accurate information on Tertian child-rearing practices, future research on the subject should be conducted via the interview-centered method.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation
Humans are volatile beings that vary widely in personality from individual to individual. That being said, social research is a field of study that requires more than just one type of experiment and more than one viewpoint to make an overarching theory. Even so, no theory can be definitive for the human nature. Therefore, the argument that interview-centered methodologies should be used to further investigate the nature of child-rearing in Tertia can be improved strengthen in several aspects.
Most of the data presented in an interview-based research, such as a survey, depend on how the questions was initially phrase. If the questions in the interview conducted by Dr. Karp were linking to or involving a parental figure, inducing the children to think of their biological parents; then the answers they gave were influenced by an outside variable rather than their own subconscious thoughts. For example, rather than asking “who is your favorite person within this entire village?” the questions could have asked “who is your favorite person in your family?”
In addition to this, it would be more beneficial for Dr. Karp if he identified the demographic of his sample and the sample size of his research. The larger the sample size, the more applicable his conclusions are to the general public. If he only conducted a few interviews, he cannot use this conclusion to describe the entire population or the general cultural of Tertia. Unless proven otherwise, the few children he has chosen for his research could have also been hand-picked from families that were outliers. They could have been wealthier, and the parents could afford to stay home more with the children or they could have lived further away from a village so their children had limited access to the more populated area; thus restricting the children to only interactions with their parents.
Another aspect that requires clarification on this research is the age of the children. Younger children are more fragile and thus, needs more attention from, and sometimes can be more attached to their parental figure, especially their mother. As they grow older and more independent, they can explore the village more and have the interactions and care from other villagers. If Dr. Karp chose to interview older kids, he may be able to get more description answers of the interactions between the villagers and the children. In contrast, if he were interview younger children, they would be more likely to speak about their mother, who should be the main caregiver at the young age.
To improve on the recommendation of interview-centered research methods, it is important to be clear about the demographics and size of the sample, including the age and background of the children. It must be proven that such method is done in a random manner so the data can be representative of the general population. Moreover, it is important that the questions asked in the interviews are written clearly, without bias, so there is no direction to one answer or another. These are the types of questions or concerns that must be answered before we can decide whether such a method is valid or viable.
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- The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative onesWrite a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and sup 58
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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: 21 15
No. of Words: 523 350
No. of Characters: 2583 1500
No. of Different Words: 241 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.782 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.939 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.85 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 187 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 136 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 104 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 66 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.905 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.635 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.304 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.54 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.16 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 120, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'phrased'.
Suggestion: phrased
...pend on how the questions was initially phrase. If the questions in the interview cond...
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Line 2, column 588, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ur favorite person in your family?' In addition to this, it would be more be...
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Line 3, column 222, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...e applicable his conclusions are to the general public. If he only conducted a few interviews,...
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Line 5, column 242, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a random manner" with adverb for "random"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...must be proven that such method is done in a random manner so the data can be representative of th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, thus, even so, for example, in addition, in contrast, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.6327345309 173% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 28.8173652695 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 55.5748502994 112% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2666.0 2260.96107784 118% => OK
No of words: 523.0 441.139720559 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09751434034 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78217453174 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97143373692 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 254.0 204.123752495 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.485659655832 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 835.2 705.55239521 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.824387207 57.8364921388 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.3 119.503703932 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.15 23.324526521 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.35 5.70786347227 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => 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: 0.170539094633 0.218282227539 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0540980472017 0.0743258471296 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.041729257606 0.0701772020484 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0960702686283 0.128457276422 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0445516922333 0.0628817314937 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.3799401198 109% => 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: 12.6 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 130.0 98.500998004 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 12.3882235529 101% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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