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

The article written by Dr. Karp, about abjuring D.r Field’s results, which aimed to recant the observation-centered approach, might be completely cogent; however, Dr. Karp was not able to offer a convincing argument, since it is rife with some assumptions and as the result, it might not be a compelling notion.

First of all, the author is comparing his own results of a research with Dr. Field’s one, which has been done about twenty years ago. The problem is, that the author has ignored the fact that during such long time, lots of things might change, which encompasses people’s culture. So, it might not be true to compare his results of interview-center approach which has been done recently which a 20 years ago one. As the result, refuting Dr. Field’s results, based on whatever the author mentioned in this field, would not be scientific.

Another doubt that should be more painted on, is his own method of researching. He argued that based on his research, which relies on interviews, an opposite result from Dr. Field, has appeared. But the lacuna here is, that he has not offered any statistical reports about how many children were interviewed. Whether he has just interviewed with children or also their parents, is another doubt that should be cast on. There is a possibility that those groups who were interviewed were not representative of the whole village, and also the results might not be so authentic, as he might have interviewed with not indigenous people and so, the result will not show the village’s true culture.

What is more, even if Dr. Field’s result were not reliable, it is not fair and also true to abjure the whole method of observation-centered approach. It is not scientifically true to reject a whole idea just because of one reason. Besides that, his approach is not also been guaranteed to be true, since he has mentioned that his graduate students are conducting this research, and there is a possibility, that because their knowledge and experience, as students are limited and are not complete, his own research might replete with some issues.

To wrap up, the author was not able to offer a well analyzed argument, and as the result of the fact that, his mentioned argument has some assumptions, it cannot be convincing, and cogent notion.